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The eastern velvet ant is the largest of the velvet ant species in the eastern United States, attaining an approximate length of 0.75 in (1.9 cm). Adults display aposematic coloration , consisting of black overall coloring with an orange-red pattern on the dorsal surface of the thorax and abdomen.
Dasymutilla montivagoides is a species of velvet ant native to North America. [1] The species is found in the central United States, specifically Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas. [2]: 390–391
Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers to their resemblance to an ant , and their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold.
Dasymutilla is a wasp genus belonging to the family Mutillidae.Their larvae are external parasites to various types of ground-nesting Hymenoptera.Most of the velvet ants in North America—the wingless females of which are conspicuous as colorful, fast, and "fuzzy" bugs—are in the genus Dasymutilla.
Dasymutilla thetis, also known as the minute thistledown velvet ant, is a species of velvet ant known only from Arizona in North America. [1] It was first described by Charles A. Blake as Sphaerophthalma thetis in 1886. [2] Individuals are about 7 mm long. [1] Females are "clothed entirely with ivory-white setae." [3]: 405
Found in south-central North America from Utah to Puebla, it is the most commonly encountered velvet ant in Texas. [1]: 84 Velvet ants are actually parasitic wasps, among the species used by D. klugii used to incubate their young are cicada-killer wasps (Sphecius grandis). [1]: 84 The specific name honors German entomologist Johann C. F. Klug.
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Liometopum occidentale, also called the velvety tree ant, [1] is a species of ant in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. Liometopum occidentale is often mistaken for carpenter ants ( Camponotus spp.) by homeowners and pest management professionals.