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title: "Pacific Velvet Ant"
description: "Dasymutilla aureola — Insetos e aranhas. Dasymutilla aureola, also known as the Pacific velvet ant, is a species of wasp in the velvet ant family Mutillidae, found in the western United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pacific-velvet-ant
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Velvet Ant

> Dasymutilla aureola — Insetos e aranhas. Dasymutilla aureola, also known as the Pacific velvet ant, is a species of wasp in the velvet ant family Mutillidae, found in the western United States.

- Scientific name: *Dasymutilla aureola*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 7809
- Wikidata: [Q21251740](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21251740)
- iNaturalist taxon: [119733](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/119733)

## Names

- en: Pacific Velvet Ant
- es: Hormiga de terciopelo de Baja California

## Countries with the most observations

US (5608), MX (116)

## Summary

Dasymutilla aureola, also known as the Pacific velvet ant, is a species of wasp in the velvet ant family Mutillidae, found in the western United States. It has a large, square-shaped head and red, yellow, or orange hair.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasymutilla_aureola

## Photo

![Pacific Velvet Ant](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-velvet-ant/medium.jpg)

Photo: Anne Parsons · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/272647864

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-velvet-ant?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).