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Genus Parnopes

Chrysidid wasp - Parnopes edwardsii - male

Parnopes fulvicornis from White Sands - Parnopes fulvicornis - 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 Chrysididae (Cuckoo Wasps)

Subfamily Chrysidinae

Tribe Parnopini

Genus Parnopes

Explanation of Names

Parnopes Latreille 1796

Numbers

7 spp. in our area(1), 14 total(2)

Identification

Parnopes is among the few chrysidids that frequent flowers (most would rather hang out around aphid colonies for the honeydew) and among the most common genera in arid habitats. The body is more elongated, with the "tire-like" appearance of the abdomen. Most other cuckoo wasps don't have such exaggerated abdominal segmentation, and the segments are broader and fewer. Parnopes also has a very long "tongue". —Eric Eaton

Range

Holarctic(2)

Internet References

Taxon page [data from(2)]

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	The chrysidid wasps of the world Kimsey L.S., Bohart R.M. 1990. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 4 August, 2005 - 9:50pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 September, 2023 - 9:17pm

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