Mutillid wasp or velvet ant at Namadgi National Park
Identification history
| Ephutomorpha ferruginata | 6 Dec 2021 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Ephutomorpha ferruginata (Mutillidae) | 5 Dec 2021 | MadiGiannotta | ||
| Mutillidae (family) | 21 Feb 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Mutillidae (family) | 29 Jan 2019 | JonLewis | ||
| Unidentified | 29 Jan 2019 | RyanW |
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User's notes
Seems like an ant imitating a spider? Never seen one before so keen to find out what it is!
2 comments
JonLewis
wrote:
30 Jan 2019
I think this is actually a Mutillid Wasp. I've suggested it, and we can wait for a wasp expert to take a look!
MadiGiannotta
wrote:
5 Dec 2021
This species is currently placed in Ephutomorpha (sl) but will be transferred to Australotilla upon revision.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.016814-35.534622
- Altitude 847.5m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Tennent, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 28 Jan 2019 08:24 AM Recorded on
- RyanW Recorded by
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Insects Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Velvet Ants (Mutillidae) RyanW Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Ephutomorpha ferruginata Scientific name
- Mutillid wasp or velvet ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 847.48m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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