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| 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 | |
