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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) » Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Parancistrocerus

Genus Parancistrocerus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · See Also · Works Cited
wasp - Parancistrocerus leionotus - male Parancistrocerus perennis Potter and Mason Wasps: Is this Euo*dynerus? No. - Parancistrocerus - male Looks like a female Mason Wasp (Parancistrocerus) carying prey - Parancistrocerus - female Mason Wasp - Parancistrocerus - female Mason Wasp - Parancistrocerus histrio - female Parancistrocerus - Parancistrocerus vagus Parancistrocerus? - Parancistrocerus
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 Vespidae (Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps)
Subfamily Eumeninae (Potter and Mason Wasps)
Genus Parancistrocerus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Parancistrocerus Bequaert, 1925
Numbers
Nearctica (1) lists 25 species.
Identification
For an online key to the nine species occurring in the northeast see the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the northeastern Nearctic region. (2)

Unlike the similiar Stenodynerus, Parancistrocerus often carries mites at the base of the second segment of the metasoma, as seen here:
  
See Also
Stenodynerus
Works Cited
1.Nearctica: Nomina Insecta Nearctica
2.Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region
By Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K. B. Cheung
Contributed by tom murray on 19 August, 2005 - 10:13pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Matthias Buck, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 14 November, 2009 - 12:03pm

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