Order Hymenoptera - Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Cynipoidea » Gall Wasps (Cynipidae) » Oak Gall Wasps (Cynipini) » Belonocnema

One hundred and sixty years of taxonomic confusion resolved: Belonocnema gall wasps associate with live oaks in the USA

Y Miles Zhang, Scott P Egan, Amanda L Driscoe, James R Ott, One hundred and sixty years of taxonomic confusion resolved: Belonocnema (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) gall wasps associated with live oaks in the USA, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021;, zlab001.

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Contributed by Miles Zhang on 28 February, 2021 - 7:23am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Rhyssinae » Giant Ichneumonid Wasps (Megarhyssa) » Black Giant Ichneumonid Wasp (Megarhyssa atrata)

Naturedocumentaries.org: Giant Ichneumon (Megarhyssa macrurus) Ovipositing

A really nice description of how Megarhysssa oviposition works. With video.

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Contributed by Seth Ausubel on 12 June, 2015 - 7:36am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Hornets and Yellowjackets (Vespinae) » Ground Yellowjackets (Vespula) » Southern Yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)

Papers in Vespula squamosa

A link containg papers on V.squamosa.

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Contributed by Anthony Daglio on 24 September, 2012 - 9:52pm

Multivoltinism and usage of multiple nest substrates in a West Texas sand dune population of Pseudomasaris phaceliae...

Neff J.L., Hook A.W. (2007) Multivoltinism and usage of multiple nest substrates in a West Texas sand dune population of Pseudomasaris phaceliae Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae). J. Hym. Res. 16: 266-276. (Full text)

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Contributed by Nathaniel Green on 23 June, 2022 - 12:05pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Elongated Ants (Pseudomyrmecinae) » Twig Ants (Pseudomyrmex)

Key to US Pseudomyrmex species

Key to United States species of Pseudomyrmex based on the worker caste. Modified from Ward (1985, 1989) and Keys to the Nearctic species of Pseudomyrmex.

This key excludes Pseudomyrmex leptosus Ward, which is known only from the queen and male.

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Contributed by Victor Engel on 27 November, 2022 - 4:43pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Caterpillar Mummy Wasps (Rogadinae) » Common Mummy Wasps (Aleiodes)

Aleiodes (Tetrasphaeropyx) of the world

Illustrated website and key by Joseph Fortier and Elizabeth Bardon

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 30 August, 2022 - 4:41pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Long-waisted Paper Wasps (Mischocyttarus)

Papers in Mischocyttaurus

Papers on the Genus Mischocyttaurus of the world.

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Contributed by Anthony Daglio on 25 September, 2012 - 1:25pm

Papers in Dolichovespula

A variety of literature on the Genus Dolichovespula from around the world.

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Contributed by Anthony Daglio on 24 September, 2012 - 9:19pm

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