Subfamily Scleroderminae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Print References · Works Cited

Cephalonomia sp. - Cephalonomia - female

Bethylid - Sclerodermus macrogaster - 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 Chrysidoidea (Cuckoo Wasps & allies)

Family Bethylidae (Flat Wasps)

Subfamily Scleroderminae

Explanation of Names

Scleroderminae Kieffer 1914

Numbers

~213 spp. in 22 genera worldwide(1)

Identification

If wings lacking, eyes with many facets. In winged forms, forewing with Rs+M absent; metanotum not developed medially nor overlapping mesoscutellum; metasomal segment II not distinctly long; metapectal-propodeal complex not depressed medially, never with posterior spines; body not strongly foveolate; mesopleuron without transepisternal line; forewing of macropterous forms with anterior board angularly incurved; anterior to pterostigma, costal vein usually absent; occipital carina often absent.(1)

Food

hosts: Coleoptera larvae in cryptic habitats(1)

Print References

(2)

Works Cited

1.	Global guide of the flat wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) Azevedo C. O., I. D. C. C. Alencar, M. S. Ramos, D. N. Barbosa, W. D. Colombo, J. M. R. Vargas, and J. Lim. 2018. Magnolia Press, Zootaxa.

2.	Reclassification of Epyrini (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae): a tribal approach with commentary on their genera Alencar I.D.C.C., Azevedo C.O. 2013. Syst. Entomol. 38: 45–80.

Contributed by Arturo Santos on 27 July, 2020 - 7:08pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 March, 2024 - 7:21pm

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