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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Tiphiid Wasps (Tiphiidae) » Myzinum

Genus Myzinum

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Tiphiid Myzinum maculatum - Myzinum - female Wasp - Myzinum - female wasp with a long abdomen - Myzinum - male wasps - Myzinum Myzinum? - Myzinum - female Myzinum? - Myzinum Sleeping cluster of wasps - Myzinum - male Sleeping cluster of wasps - still going ... - Myzinum - 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)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Tiphiidae (Tiphiid Wasps)
Genus Myzinum
Other Common Names
Five-banded Tiphid (M. quinquecinctum)
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Latreille, 1803.
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 13 species.
Size
19 mm for M. quinquecinctum (1), same species elsewhere reported as 30-35 mm (2)
Range
Eastern and central North America--M. quinquecinctum
Habitat
Typically meadows, fields, lawns (2).
Season
July-September (Minnesota), June-October (several species, North Carolina)
Food
Adults found on flowers, take nectar.
Life Cycle
Larvae are parasitoids of white grubs (scarab larvae), especially May Beetles, Phyllophaga. Female lays one egg per grub in soil. Larvae hatches, penetrates host, first feeding on non-essential tissues, later feeding on essential organs and killng host. Pupae overwinter in soil and adults emerge in early summer, with one generation per year (2).
Print References
Salsbury, p. 263--photo of M. quinquecinctum (1)
Milne, p. 816, plate 475--M. quinquecinctum (2)
Drees, p. 283, fig. 345 (3)
Brimley, p. 436 lists 5 species (as Myzine) for North Carolina (4).
Internet References
Insects of Cedar Creek
North Carolna State University Entomology Collection lists 8 species from that state
Works Cited
1.Insects in Kansas
By Glenn A. Salsbury and Stephan C. White
2.National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders
By Lorus and Margery Milne
3.A Field Guide to Common Texas Insects
By Bastiaan M. Drees, John A. Jackman
4.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 25 April, 2007 - 9:36am

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