Genus Trypoxylon

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Works Cited

Pipe organ mud dauber - Trypoxylon politum - female

Keyhole wasps - Trypoxylon - male - female

Pipe organ mud dauber nest - Trypoxylon politum

Dirt Dauber Image #5 (Coastal North Carolina) - Trypoxylon politum

Old nest and cocoons - Trypoxylon politum

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)

No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)

Family Crabronidae

Subfamily Crabroninae (Square-headed Wasps)

Tribe Trypoxylini

Genus Trypoxylon

Explanation of Names

Author of genus is Latreille, 1796.

Numbers

Nearctica.com lists 32 species.

Arnett, p. 596 (1) lists 30 species in two subgenera, Trypoxylon (15 species) and Trypargilum (15 species).

Identification

The "notched" eyes and clavate (club-shaped) abdomen are very distinctive.

Print References

Arnett, p. 596 (1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 21 September, 2004 - 7:56pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 2 July, 2008 - 6:14am

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