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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sceliphrinae

Subfamily Sceliphrinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber - Sceliphron caementarium Mud dauber - Sceliphron caementarium but which thread-waisted wasp? - Sceliphron caementarium Id help needed - wasp - Sceliphron caementarium Sceliphron caementarium - male Sceliphron caementarium - Male behavior - Sceliphron caementarium - male Invasive Mud Dauber - Sceliphron curvatum - female Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp - Chalybion californicum - male
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)
No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)
Family Sphecidae (Thread-waisted Wasps)
Subfamily Sceliphrinae
Explanation of Names
Sceliphrinae Ashmead 1899
Numbers
7 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1), ~150 spp. in 6 genera total(2)
Identification
see (3)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Pulawski W.J. (2003-) Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (Apoidea excluding Apidae)
3.A reclassification of the Sphecinae with a revision of the Nearctic species of the tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini
Bohart RM and Menke AS. 1963. University of California Publications in Entomology 30:91-182.
Contributed by v belov on 28 October, 2010 - 12:28pm
Last updated 31 August, 2023 - 11:28pm

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