Dasymutilla flammifera

Dasymutilla flammifera is a species of velvet ant found along the Pacific coast of North America and inland to Idaho and Arizona.^[1][2]

Dasymutilla flammifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Mutillidae
Genus:	Dasymutilla
Species:	D. flammifera
Binomial name
Dasymutilla flammifera Mickel, 1928

This species was first described by American entomologist Clarence E. Mickel in 1928.^[3][4] Per Mickel, D. flammifera females are "very dark mahogany red, the pubescence of the head, thorax, and abdomen above scarlet; length, 13 mm" and are similar to Dasymutilla sackenii except for "the sculpture of the genae," coloration, and the fuzz on the femora. The type species was collected near Claremont, California.^{[4]: 240–242}