Dasymutilla nogalensis is a species of velvet ant native to North America.[1] The male and female of this species were originally described in 1928 by C. E. Mickel as Dasymutilla atrifulva and Dasymutilla nogalensis, respectively. The two species names were synonymized by Manley and Pitts in 2007. This species is found the southwest, namely the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora, and the American states of Arizona and New Mexico.[2]: 391–392
Dasymutilla nogalensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Mutillidae |
Genus: | Dasymutilla |
Species: | D. nogalensis
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Binomial name | |
Dasymutilla nogalensis Mickel, 1928
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References
edit- ^ "Dasymutilla nogalensis". iNaturalist. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020-05-11). "Keys to Nearctic Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with Notes on Taxonomic Changes since Krombein (1979)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 122 (2): 335. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335. ISSN 0013-8797.