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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Pemphredoninae » Psenini

Tribe Psenini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Aphid Wasp - Mimesa - female Sphecidae - female Sphecidae - female Thread-wasted Wasp? Wasp Psen monticola Hymenoptera - male Crabronid
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)
No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)
Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)
Subfamily Pemphredoninae
Tribe Psenini
Explanation of Names
Psenini A.Costa 1858
Numbers
86 spp. in 7 genera in our area;(1)(2) >450 spp. in 11 genera worldwide(3)
Identification
Distinctly petiolate abdomen • 3 submarginal cells • Antennal sockets well above clypeus
keys in (4)(1)
Range
weltweit, most diverse in Holarctic & Oriental realms
Food
Most of our genera provision their nests with leafhoppers(2)
• Ammopsen: biology unknown
• Mimesa: Cicadellidae
• Mimumesa: Cicadellidae (adult Agallia leafhoppers)
• Pluto: Cicadellidae
• Psen: Membracidae and Cercopidae (extralimital spp. also upon Cicadellidae)
• Psenulus: Aphididae and Psyllidae
• Pseneo: Cicadellidae
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Nearctic Psenini (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) I. Redescriptions and Keys to the Genera and Subgenera
Gittins, A.R. 1969. Transactions of the American Entomological Society Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 49-76.
2.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.
3.Pulawski W.J. (2023) Family group names and classification
4.Review of the wasps of the subfamily Pseninae of North America (Hymenoptera: Aculeata)
Malloch, J.R. 1933. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 82 (2967):1–60.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 3 June, 2005 - 9:50pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 31 August, 2023 - 10:03pm

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