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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Cuckoo Wasps & allies (Chrysidoidea) » Sclerogibbidae

Family Sclerogibbidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
unknown hymenoptera - Sclerogibba talpiformis tiny wasp - female Sclerogibba talpiformis? Female? - female Sclerogibba talpiformis? Female? - female Sclerogibba talpiformis? Female? - female Sclerogibba talpiformis? Female? - female Sclerogibbidae from Arizona - female Hymenoptera
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 Sclerogibbidae
Explanation of Names
Sclerogibbidae Ashmead 1902
Numbers
5 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1), 20 spp. in 3 genera total(2)
Identification
Strongly sexually dimorphic: female is wingless and ant-like, male is winged.
Range
In our area, southern (FL, TX, OK, AZ, CA)(1)
Habitat
Larvae are attached externally to nymphal webspinners and develop with the host's silken galleries(1)
Food
hosts: webspinners (Embiidina)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the world Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea)
Olmi, M. 2005. Frustula Entomologica, N.S., 26-27 (39-40), 46-193.
2.Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang Z-Q (ed) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classif. and survey of taxonomic richness
Aguiar AP, Deans AR, Engel MS, Forshage M, Huber JT, Jennings JT, Johnson NF, Lelej AS, Longino JT, Lohrmann V, Mikó I, Ohl M. 2013. Zootaxa 3703: 51–62.
Contributed by George Waldren on 11 April, 2009 - 1:01pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 19 February, 2019 - 1:48pm

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