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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Aulacids, Ensigns, and Gasteruptiids (Evanioidea) » Gasteruptiid (Gasteruptiidae)

Family Gasteruptiidae - Gasteruptiid

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Wasp - Gasteruption - female Wasp - Gasteruption - female Wasp - Gasteruption - female Gasteruption - female Gasteruption - male Very thin wasp - Gasteruption Gasteruptiid - Gasteruption - male Carrot Wasp - Gasteruption
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)
Superfamily Evanioidea (Aulacids, Ensigns, and Gasteruptiids)
Family Gasteruptiidae (Gasteruptiid)
Numbers
Arnett, p. 572, lists 15 species, in one genus, Gasteruption. (1)
Size
13-40 mm
Identification
Abdomen slender, very long, and attached to thorax on upper (dorsal) side. Hind tibia expanded. Ovipositor very long. Head is set on a "neck", differentiating from Ichneumons.
Range
Most species in norhtern United States and in Canada.
Food
Adults take nectar.
Life Cycle
Larvae are predators or predators-iniquilines (consumes larval food, not the larvae) of other hymenoptera that nest in twigs and in wood. Third instar larvae spin coccons and overwinter, pupate in spring.
See Also
Ichneumonidae
Print References
Arnett, American Insects, p. 572 (1)
Bland, How to Know the Insects, pp. 377-378, fig. 360B (2)
Borror and White, A Field Guide to the Insects, pp. 334-335 (3)
Gordh, p. 386 (4)
Internet References
Tree of Life
Insects of Cedar Creek
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.How to Know the Insects
By Roger G. Bland, H.E. Jaques
3.A Field Guide to Insects
By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson
4.A Dictionary of Entomology
By George Gordh, David H. Headrick
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 October, 2004 - 8:15pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 4 August, 2005 - 9:12pm

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