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Subtribe Stigmina

small black wasp with big square head - Stigmus

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)

No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)

Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)

Subfamily Pemphredoninae

Tribe Pemphredonini

Subtribe Stigmina

Numbers

10 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1), ~120 spp. in 11 genera worldwide(2)

Identification

Key to genera in: Finnamore, A. (1995). Revision of the world genera of the subtribe Stigmina (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae: Pemphredoninae), Part 1. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 4, 204–284. Full Text Here

Works Cited

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

2.	Pulawski W.J. (2003-) Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (Apoidea excluding Apidae)

Contributed by v belov on 28 October, 2010 - 4:54pm
Additional contributions by Nathaniel Green
Last updated 13 August, 2021 - 11:10pm

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