Bothriomutilla rugicollis

1 Mutillid wasp or velvet ant at Goorooyarroo NR (ACT)

Bothriomutilla rugicollis at Goorooyarroo NR (ACT) - 20 Mar 2017
Bothriomutilla rugicollis at Goorooyarroo NR (ACT) - 20 Mar 2017
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Bothriomutilla rugicollis 25 Dec 2020 KimPullen
Ephutomorpha sp. (genus) 6 Jul 2017 KimPullen
Ephutomorpha sp. (genus) 2 May 2017 MichaelMulvaney
Mutillidae (family) 22 Mar 2017 CedricBear
Unidentified 21 Mar 2017 CedricBear

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a few ants around but nothing else

2 comments

   22 Mar 2017
This is very similar to my sighting of a wingless wasp / "velvet ant", see:
http://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3371825
CedricBear wrote:
   22 Mar 2017
Thanks Michael, I think you are right.

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