Mutillidae (family)

Unidentified Mutillid wasp or velvet ant at Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill

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Identification history

Mutillidae (family)	31 Aug 2020	MichaelBedingfield
Mutillidae (family)	31 Aug 2020	AlisonMilton
Mutillidae (family)	30 Aug 2020	JonLewis
Unverified	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

AlisonMilton wrote:

30 Aug 2020

Thanks Jon

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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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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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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

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South Australia

Victoria

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