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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Mutillidae
Genus: Dasymutilla
Species:
D. coccineohirta
Binomial name
Dasymutilla coccineohirta
Blake, 1871

Dasymutilla coccineohirta is a species of velvet ant found in North America.[1] Coloration on the females is variant, ranging from red to white.[2] It is found along the Pacific coast as far north as Washington and Idaho and as far south as Baja California state.[1][2]

D. clytemnestra was recently synonymized with D. coccineohirta.[2] It is "Closely allied to Dasymutilla filvohirta, but may be distinguished by the marginal cell being smaller and the clothing much coarser."[3]

This species was first described by Charles Alfred Blake [Wikispecies] in 1871 from a specimen collected in California.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dasymutilla arachnoides". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  3. ^ a b Blake, Charles A. (1886). Monograph of the Mutillidae of North America. pp. 222–223. Be. Paper 220. – via digitalcommons.usu.edu.

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