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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea)

Superfamily Vespoidea - Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets

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not Pol*istes - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis - female red ant - Formica rubicunda ant - Leptothorax Don't mess with us! - Polistes exclamans Wasp ID Request - Euodynerus - male Paper wasp? - Polistes dominula Anoplius depressipes Blackjacket - Vespula consobrina
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Identification
OVERVIEW OF FAMILIES

Family Bradynobaenidae - Bradynobaenid Wasps



Family Formicidae - Ants


Family Mutillidae – Velvet Ants
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Family Myrmosidae
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Family Pompilidae – Spider Wasps



Family Rhopalosomatidae - Rhopalosomatid Wasps



Family Sapygidae - Sapygid Wasps



Family Scoliidae - Scoliid Wasps



Family Sierolomorphidae - Sierolomorphid Wasps



Family Tiphiidae - Tiphiid Wasps

Family Vespidae - Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps
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Tree of Life
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 June, 2007 - 7:32am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Abigail Parker
Last updated 11 October, 2009 - 5:01pm

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