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Subfamily Scleroderminae

Cephalonomia sp. - Cephalonomia - female Wasp - Cephalonomia waterstoni - female Biting / Stinging Ant? - Cephalonomia Biting / Stinging Ant? - Cephalonomia Biting / Stinging Ant? - Cephalonomia Bethylid - Sclerodermus macrogaster - female Bethylid - Sclerodermus macrogaster - female Sclerodermus? - Cephalonomia
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.