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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) » Flat Wasps (Bethylidae) » Pristocerinae

Subfamily Pristocerinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Bethylid wasp - Pseudisobrachium prolongatum Pristocera armifera - Pristepyris armiferus - male Bethlidae?? - Pseudisobrachium Wasp - Pristepyris armiferus - male Bethylid - Pseudisobrachium Black wasp - Pristepyris Pristepyris armiferus - male Bethylidae, Flat Wasp, head & throaxX - Pristepyris - 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 Bethylidae (Flat Wasps)
Subfamily Pristocerinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
see (1)
Explanation of Names
Pristocerinae Dalla Torre 1898
Numbers
>60 spp. in 7 genera in our area, 23 genera total(2)(3)
Identification
If wings lacking, eyes reduced to a few facets or absent, and ocelli absent. In winged forms, forewing with no Rs+M; metanotum developed medially and overlapping mesoscutellum(3)
Range
Worldwide, by far more diverse in Subsaharan Africa(2)(4)
Food
hosts: wood-boring, soil-dwelling or myrmecophilous beetle larvae(4)
Works Cited
1.Opening Pandora’s box of Pristocerinae: molecular and morphological phylogenies of Apenesia (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) reveal..
Alencar I.D.C.C., Waichert C., Azevedo C.O. 2018. Sys. Entomol. 43: 481–509.
2.Phylogenetic systematics of the family Bethylidae (Insecta:Hymenoptera) Pt II. Keys to subfamilies, tribes & genera in the world
Terayama M. 2003. Acad. Reports Fac. Eng. Tokyo Polytech. Univ. 26: 16-29.
3.Global guide of the flat wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)
Azevedo C. O., I. D. C. C. Alencar, M. S. Ramos, D. N. Barbosa, W. D. Colombo, J. M. R. Vargas, and J. Lim. 2018. Magnolia Press, Zootaxa.
4.van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar
Contributed by tom murray on 19 April, 2006 - 6:55am
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 15 November, 2023 - 7:27pm

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