Page 24 - The Black Range Naturalist Vol. 4, No. 3
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A Velvet Ant of the genus Dasymutilla (possibly D. magnifica or D. klugii) photographed in Ready Pay Gulch east of Hillsboro, New Mexico. Females of the genus are wingless; it is the wingbeat of the male wasp that the spider hears.
This is a male, if it were a female it would have a black strip running through its red back.
The chelicerae of this species are iridescent.
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