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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoid Wasps (traditional Sphecidae)

Apoid Wasps (traditional Sphecidae)

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Works Cited
Sphecidae - Eremnophila aureonotata - male - female wasp - Tachytes - female wasp - Philanthus ventilabris White flag of defeat - Philanthus gibbosus - male Chalybion californicum? - Chalybion californicum Ectemnius with orange on second femur - Ectemnius maculosus Bee or Wasp? - Bicyrtes ventralis Passaloecus - Passaloecus annulatus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon Apoid Wasps (traditional Sphecidae)
Numbers
~1360 spp. in 112 genera of 3 families in our area(1), >9700 spp. in 4 families (Heterogynaidae is a small Old World group) worldwide(2)
Identification
key to genera in (3)
Remarks
Roosting behaviour
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato
3.Sphecid wasps of the world: a generic revision
Richard Mitchell Bohart, Arnold S. Menke. 1976. University of California Press.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 June, 2007 - 7:32am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 1 November, 2021 - 9:42am

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