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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
CHRYSIDOIDEA
(a superfamily of solitary wasps)
MUTILLIDAE
(velvet ants)
Mutillidae
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

MUTILLIDAE (velvet ants)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #macrophotos
Species Smicromyrne rufipes (Fabricius) (Small Velvet Ant) 4

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Berland, L., 1925 Hyménoptères Vespiformes I (Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae)
Richards, O.W., 1980 Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea
Yeo, P.F., & Corbet, S.A., 1995 Solitary Wasps

MUTILLIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)		 Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 feeding and other relationships of MUTILLIDAE (velvet ants)

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