Family Pelecinidae - Pelecinids

Classification · Numbers · Print References · Works Cited

Pelecinid Wasp - Pelecinus polyturator - female

Pelecinid Wasp (Pelecinus polyturator) - Pelecinus polyturator - male

HumDinger2006aug07 - Pelecinus polyturator

Darth Vader Bug? - Pelecinus polyturator

Pelecinid - Pelecinus polyturator - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)

Family Pelecinidae (Pelecinids)

Numbers

One North American genus with only one species: Pelecinus polyturator Drury 1773 (Ichneumon) (1). Worldwide, there is only one extant genus, Pelecinus, with three recognized species (Johnson and Musetti, 1999):

Pelecinus polyturator (North America, Central America, South America)

Pelecinus thoracicus (western Mexico)

Pelecinus dichrous (South America)

Print References

Norman F. Johnson and Luciana Musetti, 1999. Revision of the proctotrupoid genus Pelecinus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae). Jornal of Natural History 33:1513-1543 (abstract).

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

Contributed by Cotinis on 10 September, 2004 - 9:10pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 9 September, 2008 - 1:54pm

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