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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Cuckoo Wasps & allies (Chrysidoidea) » Pincer Wasps (Dryinidae) » Gonatopodinae » Gonatopus

Genus Gonatopus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Chrysidoidea (Cuckoo Wasps & allies)
Family Dryinidae (Pincer Wasps)
Subfamily Gonatopodinae
Genus Gonatopus
Explanation of Names
Gonatopus Ljungh 1810
Numbers
almost 450 spp. total(1)
Range
worldwide(1)
Food
Hosts: Acanaloniidae, Cicadellidae (except Typhlocybinae, Idiocerinae, Macropsinae), Delphacidae, Flatidae, Issidae, Lophopidae, Tropiduchidae(1)
Works Cited
1.van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 20 September, 2007 - 4:00pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 7 December, 2014 - 8:53pm

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