Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Black Bug, 1 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
Some species of digger wasps are small, and males won't have stingers. Only the females need them to paralyze the prey. The males only have to find females and mate - no stinger needed.

This will also be the case with velvet ants (family Mutillidae) which are actually wasps. The females of those have stingers but don't have wings. It's opposite with the males. Usually velevt ants have either red or yellow coloration on them. Your's looks more like one of the families that I mentioned above, but I thought I'd give a picture of a velevt ant anyway, just in case it could be your guy.

Here's a picture...