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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae » Crabronidae » Astatinae

Subfamily Astatinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Internet References
Black wasp - shot#2 - Astata Crabronid - Astata occidentalis - female ID sought for very convincing wa*sp mimic. - Dryudella Dryudella Dark Wasp - Dryudella caerulea Sqaure headed wasp? Maybe in the Trillini tribe - Astata - male Hymenoptera? 06b - Astata Black and red wasp with large bulging eyes - Dryudella - male
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)
No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)
Family Crabronidae
Subfamily Astatinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly placed in family Sphecidae; transferred to Crabronidae by Prentice (1998) and Melo (1999) - see PDF doc by Pulawski in Internet References section below
Numbers
153 species in the world
Internet References
classification; PDF doc of superfamily Apoidea (Wojciech Pulawski, 2006, California Academy of Sciences)
number of species worldwide (California Academy of Sciences)
Contributed by Richard Leung on 8 March, 2005 - 10:56pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 28 October, 2006 - 2:23pm

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