| Dasymutilla leda | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mutillidae |
| Genus: | Dasymutilla |
| Species: | D. leda
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| Binomial name | |
| Dasymutilla leda Blake, 1872
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Dasymutilla leda is a species of velvet ant native to North America.[1] Found in the central United States from South Dakota to Texas, only females have been collected by scientists but "distribution and coloration suggest that D. myrice may be the male of this species."[2]: 387
- ^ "Dasymutilla leda". iNaturalist. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ Manley, Donald G.; Williams, Kevin A.; Pitts, James P. (2020-05-11). "Keys to Nearctic Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), with Notes on Taxonomic Changes since Krombein (1979)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 122 (2): 335. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.335. ISSN 0013-8797.