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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) » Flat Wasps (Bethylidae) » Bethylinae » Bethylus

Genus Bethylus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
wingless wasp - Bethylus amoenus little black wingless wasp - Bethylus decipiens - Bethylus amoenus Black Ant? - Bethylus Black Ant? - Bethylus Bethylid - Bethylus decipiens - female Hymenoptera. Bethylidae? - Bethylus Hymenoptera. Bethylidae? - Bethylus
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 Bethylidae (Flat Wasps)
Subfamily Bethylinae
Genus Bethylus
Explanation of Names
Bethylus Latreille 1802
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), 26 in Europe(2)...
Size
<5 mm
Identification
females almost always micropterous (macropters rare), males macropters unknown in our species
Life Cycle
Females sting caterpillars (chiefly microlepidoptera), drag the prey to a place of concealment, then lay up to several eggs on the host.
Internet References
Harvard U.
Works Cited
1.Nearctic Hymenoptera other (Discover Life's IDnature guide)
2.de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.
Contributed by tom murray on 16 February, 2009 - 4:15pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 30 June, 2017 - 4:35pm

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