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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) » Myzininae

Subfamily Myzininae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
wasp - Myzinum carolinianum - female Wasp on Hydrangea leaf - Myzinum quinquecinctum - female Another Myzinum (perhaps female)? - Myzinum quinquecinctum - female Mystery insect - Myzinum Ectemnius sp. - Myzinum quinquecinctum - female Wasp - Myzinum quinquecinctum - male Myzinum dubiosum - female Myzinium female 2. - Myzinum carolinianum - 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 Myzininae
Explanation of Names
Myzininae Borner 1919
Numbers
a single genus with 10 spp. in our area • ~200 spp. in 9 genera total (Bartalucci 2004)(1)
Range
worldwide
Food
Myzinini (New World) are ectoparasitoids of subterranean scarabaeid larvae; species of the Old World tribes Mesini & Meriini parasitize cerambycid and tenebrionid larvae, respectively(2)
Works Cited
1.BioLib.cz
2.van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 27 August, 2008 - 6:51pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 29 October, 2023 - 2:56pm

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