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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Tiphioidea » Tiphiid Wasps (Tiphiidae) » Brachycistidinae

Subfamily Brachycistidinae

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Works Cited
Bethylidae? - Brachycistis - female Tiphiid Wasp? - Colocistis crassa - male Mojave-34 - Acanthetropis - male Male, Brachycistis? - Brachycistis - male Male, Brachycistis? - Brachycistis - male Willcox-0BG.J.2016.01 - male Male, Brachycistidinae? - Brachycistis - male Small nocturnal black wasp - male
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)
Superfamily Tiphioidea
Family Tiphiidae (Tiphiid Wasps)
Subfamily Brachycistidinae
Other Common Names
nocturnal tiphiid wasps (only applies to the western hemisphere species)
Explanation of Names
Brachycistidinae Kimsey 1991
Numbers
66 spp. in 10 genera in our area; ~80 spp. in 12 genera total(1)
not yet in the guide (sp.#): Brachycistellus (1) · Brachycistina (1) · Glyptacros (5) · Hadrocistis (2) · Paraquemaya (1 in our area, 4 total) · Sedomaya (1)
Identification
no felt line on tergite II, unlike in Mutillidae & Bradynobaenidae (William Ericson's comment)
Range
w. NA
Habitat
females are wingless and burrow in sand, only coming out to breed; males are nocturnal and come to light, sometimes by the thousands
Food
the only recoded host for the subfamily is larva of Eusattus or a closely related tenbrionid (Borowiec & Kimsey 2015)
See Also
Chyphotidae · Mutillidae · Myrmosidae
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny and checklist of the nocturnal tiphiids of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Brachycistidinae)
Kimsey L.S., Wasbauer M.S. 2006. J. Hymenopt. Res. 15: 9-25.
Contributed by Matthias Buck on 6 July, 2007 - 5:17pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 30 October, 2023 - 4:57pm

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