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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 » Aphid Wasps (Pemphredoninae)

Subfamily Pemphredoninae - Aphid Wasps

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Internet References
Psenini Pemphredonini - Pemphredon Aphid Wasp - Stigmus Pemphredonini - Pemphredon - female Which wasp is this, please? wasp - Passaloecus ? - Diodontus Spilomena hainesi - female
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 Pemphredoninae (Aphid Wasps)
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
1,022 species in the world
Size
body length 8-15 mm
Identification
Usually black. Middle tibia with one apical spur.
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 24 March, 2005 - 11:08pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod
Last updated 28 October, 2006 - 2:51pm

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