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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Thynnoidea » Thynnid Wasps (Thynnidae) » Methochinae » Pterombrus

Genus Pterombrus

Classification · Numbers · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Thynnid wasp - Pterombrus rufiventris - female Thynnid wasp - Pterombrus rufiventris - female Thynnid wasp - Pterombrus rufiventris - female Pterombrus rufiventris in North Central Texas - Pterombrus rufiventris female Thynnid wasp_Pterombrus rufiventris - Pterombrus rufiventris - 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)
Superfamily Thynnoidea
Family Thynnidae (Thynnid Wasps)
Subfamily Methochinae
Genus Pterombrus
Numbers
Only 1 species in North America.
Life Cycle
Parasitoids of Cicindelinae.
Remarks
There had previously been contention regarding the placement of this genus in Myzininae or Methochinae. WaspWeb.org(1) supported the transfer to Methochinae in accordance with Pantaleoni & Bartalucci (2011).
Print References
Krombein, K. V. 1938. Studies in the Tiphiidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). II. A revision of the Nearctic Myzininae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 64(3): 227- 292.
Pantaleoni, R. A., and Boni Bartalucci, M. 2011. New record of Tentyria Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) as host of Poecilotiphia rousselii (Guérin, 1838) (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Biodiversity Journal 2(4): 207-208.
Works Cited
1.van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 August, 2017 - 6:45pm
Additional contributions by Arturo Santos
Last updated 22 November, 2020 - 7:46pm

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