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Spotting

Description:

An unknown ant. It has two orange spots on its abdomen and its adbomen is more like a butterfly's abdomen. Well, I don't know exactly how to explain it.

Habitat:

I don't know.

Notes:

I found it sleeping in my room's door.

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2 Comments

Eis4Xtreme
Eis4Xtreme 9 years ago

Yeah, definitely a velvet ant.

LivanEscudero
LivanEscudero 9 years ago

Looks like some kind of Velvet Ant ( which are basically wingless wasps ). I don't know if all, but some do have a painful sting.

AilsonF.S.Lima
Spotted by
AilsonF.S.Lima

PR, Brazil

Spotted on Jan 26, 2015
Submitted on Jan 28, 2015

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