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Mating pair. 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.
Commonly mistaken for an ant because of its appearance and its common name, it is a parasitoid wasp species in which the females are wingless, as is true for all females of Mutillidae. It can be recognized by its distinctive coloring, black with bright red on the upper side of the head, thorax, and abdomen. [4]
Euspinolia militaris is a species of wasp in the family Mutillidae. [1] Though it is a wingless wasp , it has sometimes been referred to by the name panda ant . [ 2 ]
The female wasps of the family Tiphiidae are mainly ectoparasitic on fossorial beetle larvae, especially members of the family Scarabaeidae and carabid subfamily Cicindelinae, known as tiger beetles. The nocturnal, winged males are often attracted to lights, so are well represented in museum collections; the wingless females mainly live ...
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.
The females of some Brachycistidinae are wingless, and hunt ground-dwelling beetle larvae. [4] The prey is paralysed with the female's sting, and an egg is laid on it so the wasp larva has a ready supply of food.
Wingless wasps. Family Rhopalosomatidae, having winged, wingless, and reduced-wing species; Wasp species having wingless females. Family ...
[citation needed] The females of some subfamilies (Diamminae, Methochinae, and most Thynninae) are wingless and hunt ground-dwelling beetle larvae, or (in one species) mole crickets. [4] The prey is paralysed with the female's sting, and an egg is laid on it so the wasp larva has a ready supply of food.