Hoplocrates monacha

Botanical Gardens of Brasilia - DF, Brazil.

 

This is a velvet ant (actually a wasp) native to South America.

 

Wingless female wasps in the family Mutillidae resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name "velvet ant" refers to their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold. Their bright colors serve as aposematic signals. They are known for their extremely painful stings and the unusually tough exoskeleton (to the point that some entomologists have reported difficulty piercing them with steel pins when attempting to mount them for display in cabinets).

 

Source (and more information): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutillidae

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hymenoptera

Superfamily: Pompiloidea

Family: Mutillidae

Subfamily: Sphaeropthalminae

Tribe: Sphaeropthalmini

Genus: Hoplocrates Mickel, 1937

Species: H. monacha (Gerstaecker, 1874)

Binomial name: Hoplocrates monacha

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