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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 » Sierolomorphid Wasps (Sierolomorphidae)

Family Sierolomorphidae - Sierolomorphid Wasps

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Sierolomorpha nigrescens wasp - Sierolomorpha canadensis - female wasp - Sierolomorpha canadensis - female Wasp - Sierolomorpha Sierolomorphid? - Sierolomorpha Bethylid - Sierolomorpha canadensis Sierolomorpha - Sierolomorpha canadensis - male Sierolomorpha? - Sierolomorpha
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 Sierolomorphidae (Sierolomorphid Wasps)
Explanation of Names
Sierolomorphidae Brues & Melander 1932
Numbers
7 spp. in a single genus in our area(1)(2)(3)
Size
♀ body 5.1‒5.8 mm, forewing 3.0‒4.3 mm • ♂ body 3.4‒5.0 mm, forewing 2.2‒4.8 mm(4)
Identification
resemble robust bethylids with more complex forewing venation(4)
Range
much of NA(1); Palaearctic
Food
Hosts unknown(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
2.New species of the genus Sierolomorpha from New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Sierolomorphidae)
Terry D. Miller. 1986. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 62(2): 121-123.
3.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
4.A preliminary review of the nearctic species of Sierolomorpha (Hymenoptera)
Evans, H.E. 1961. Breviora, 140: 1-12.
Contributed by George Waldren on 18 December, 2007 - 5:34pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 29 October, 2023 - 10:49pm

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