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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Pelecinids (Pelecinidae)

Family Pelecinidae - Pelecinids

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Pelecinid Wasp (Pelecinus polyturator) - Pelecinus polyturator - male HumDinger2006aug07 - Pelecinus polyturator found in Toronto Canada - Pelecinus polyturator pelecinid wasp? - Pelecinus polyturator Is this an American Pelecinid Wasp? - Pelecinus polyturator Pelecinid Wasp - Pelecinus polyturator - female Parasitoid Wasp - Pelecinus polyturator - female Pelecinid Wasp - Pelecinus polyturator
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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