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

Family Sapygidae - Sapygid Wasps

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Little wasp - Sapyga wasp Eusapyga verticalis Eusapyga verticalis - female Wasp on goldenrod Teeny tiny wasp - Sapyga Teeny tiny wasp - Sapyga Sapyga angustata (Sapygidae) - Sapyga angustata - female
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 Sapygidae (Sapygid Wasps)
Other Common Names
Club-horned wasps
Numbers
Nearctica lists 17 species in North America in 3 genera.
Size
15 mm or less
Identification
Usually black spotted or banded with yellow, eyes deeply notched. Short legs. Differ from Myzininae (Tiphiidae) in being smaller and in lacking mesosternal lobes. Differ from Mutillidae in having the body bare.
Food
Larvae are parasites or clepto-parasites of leaf cutting bees.
Remarks
Small but widely distributed and quite rare group.
Print References
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Internet References
Wikipedia
Works Cited
1.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
3.Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America
By Richard E. White, Christopher Leahy, Roger Tory Peterson
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 18 May, 2006 - 10:27am
Additional contributions by waspGeorge
Last updated 4 February, 2008 - 7:11am

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