Red Velvet Wasp in the Wild

Taxonomic Hierarchy
Red Velvet Wasp, Dasymutilla occidentalis
Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals
Phylum Arthropoda – arthropods
Subphylum Hexapoda – hexapods
Class Insecta – insects, hexapoda
Subclass Pterygota – winged insects
Infraclass Neoptera – modern, wing-folding insects
Order Hymenoptera – abelha, formiga, vespa, ants, bees, wasps
Suborder Apocrita – narrow-waisted hymenopterans, ants, bees, true wasps
Infraorder Aculeata
Superfamily Vespoidea – vespoid wasps
Family Mutillidae – velvet ants
Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead, 1899
Species Dasymutilla occidentalis (Linnaeus)
Dasymutilla occidentalis, (Linnaeus), Taxonomic Serial No.: 154183














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