Unidentified Mutillid wasp or velvet ant at Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
Identification history
| Mutillidae (family) | 31 Aug 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Mutillidae (family) | 31 Aug 2020 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Mutillidae (family) | 30 Aug 2020 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 30 Aug 2020 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
The legs look too hairy for an ant but the head doesn't look right for a spider so unsure what to put this under. Very fast and constantly moving among leaf litter with other ants.
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
30 Aug 2020
Hi Alison, because they look so much like ants I've seen a few of these come through CNM now, so I'm pretty sure its a Velvet ant, which is a type of wasp. Cheers, J
Location information
- Coordinates 149.089220-35.247212
- Altitude 657.4m
- Maps Gossan Hill Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Aug 2020 10:56 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Mutillidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified Mutillid wasp or velvet ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1430.7m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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