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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) » Pincer Wasps (Dryinidae)

Family Dryinidae - Pincer Wasps

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
Crovettia theliae - female wasp - female Unknown Hymenoptera - Dryinus crawfordi Little wasp - Deinodryinus small wasp Dryinid - female Some Kind Of Wasp? Potential Gonatopodinae
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 Dryinidae (Pincer Wasps)
Explanation of Names
Dryinidae Haliday 1833
Numbers
17 subfamilies, >50 genera, and ~2000 spp. worldwide
Identification
Females usually have chelate protarsus to hold the host during oviposition.(1) Females of most spp. are wingless; some mimic ants. Antennae 10-segmented.
Male wing
Only the female has front legs with oversized tarsal claws, used to grab leafhoppers.(2)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Food
parasitoids and predators of Auchenorrhyncha (most commonly Cicadellidae, Delphacidae, Flatidae)(1)
Life Cycle
Larva develops inside the host, then extrudes in a characteristic sac bulging out of the host's abdomen. Pupation on host plant or in the soil.(1)
Once the female captures a leafhopper, she inserts her ovipositor into its abdomen. As the larva grows, it moves to a chamber that it forms from its molted skins. This chamber protrudes from the side of the host. This protects it from the immune response of the leafhopper.(2)
Internet References
Taxon page(1)
Works Cited
1.van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar
2.Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 5 August, 2005 - 2:23pm
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Marci Hess, PaleoJon
Last updated 23 September, 2023 - 10:41am

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