In a similar respect, insects called "velvet ants" (the family Mutillidae) are technically wasps.
The earliest-known velvet ants are specimens from the Dominican Republic preserved in amber some 25 to 40 million years ago.
Invertebrates, such as the tiger beetle, metalmark butterfly, velvet ant, crayfish, water strider, and dragonfly.
This is a troublesome place, hot, arid, shifting, but life holds on: the velvet ant, the pine lizard, the hairy wolf spider.
Do you love the velvet ant as much as I?
Members of the genus Castianeira appear to be mimics of ants and velvet ants.
A velvet ant is actually a wasp.
Dasymutilla nocturna - (a velvet ant)
Family Mutillidae (velvet ants)
