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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) » Myrmosidae

Family Myrmosidae

Classification · Identification · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Not an ant? - Myrmosa unicolor ant-mimic wingless wasp - Myrmosa unicolor Myrmosula rutilans - female Myrmosula rutilans - female 4003084 - Myrmosa unicolor - female wasp - male wasp - male Unsure
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)
Family Myrmosidae
Identification
Females are always wingless and thorax is divided in two distinct parts. Transactions of the American Entomological Society.
Females much smaller than males. Males without a spine at the end of the abdomen.
Food
Larvae are parasites of various bees and wasps.
Remarks
The family (Myrmosidae) has had a confusing history. These wasps are closely related to the Mutillidae and are now recognized as a distinct family (after molecular phylogenetic work was done on the superfamily Vespoidea). No longer a part of the Mutillidae. link

Previously considered a subfamily (Myrmosinae) of the Mutillidae. Entomological News, Psyche.

Before that, a subfamily (Myrmosinae) of the Tiphiidae by ((1)).
Print References
(2)
Internet References
Transactions of the American Entomological Society. Info and keys.
Works Cited
1.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
2.A Field Guide to Insects
By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson
Contributed by George Waldren on 15 October, 2008 - 10:55am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 14 April, 2009 - 10:56pm

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