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Genus Colocistis

Tiphiid Wasp with Primary Submarginal Isolation (dorsal wings) - Colocistis crassa - male

Tiphiid Wasp with Primary Submarginal Isolation (face) - Colocistis crassa - male

2nd Tiphiid Wasp (lateral upside-down) - Colocistis crassa - male

Male, Colocistis castanea? - Colocistis castanea - male

Male, Colocistis crassa? - Colocistis - male

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 Tiphioidea

Family Tiphiidae (Tiphiid Wasps)

Subfamily Brachycistidinae

Genus Colocistis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aglyptacros Mickel & Krombein 1942

Explanation of Names

Colocistis Krombein 1942

Numbers

10 spp. in our area, 12 total(1)

Identification

Configuration of the submarginal cells in male is unique within the subfamily(2)

♂

• ♀♀ are wingless and harder to identify

Range

se.CA to s.CO, w.TX and Oaxaca, Mexico; in our area, C. eureka, C. segredentata, and C. thermarum restricted to AZ · C. brevis, C. crassa, C. eremi, and C. pilosa restricted to CA · C. castanea CA—AZ · C. paxillata CO · C. sulcata TX(1)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the brachycistidine genus Colocistis Krombein, 1942 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) Kimsey L.S., Wasbauer M.S. 2013. J. Hymenopt. Res. 33: 1-24.

2.	Phylogeny and checklist of the nocturnal tiphiids of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Brachycistidinae) Kimsey L.S., Wasbauer M.S. 2006. J. Hymenopt. Res. 15: 9-25.

Contributed by George Waldren on 6 October, 2009 - 12:56pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 30 October, 2023 - 4:47pm

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