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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Club-horned Wasps (Sapygidae)

Family Sapygidae - Club-horned Wasps

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Sapygidae? Perhaps a Tiphiid? - Eusapyga verticalis Square-headed wasp? - Krombeinopyga aculeata Black-small white stripes Wasp - Krombeinopyga Long slender black wasp Eumeninae? Little striped wasp Hymenoptera ID requested
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 Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)
Family Sapygidae (Club-horned Wasps)
Other Common Names
Club-horned Cuckoo Wasps, Sapygid Wasps
Explanation of Names
Sapygidae Latreille 1810
Numbers
19 spp. in our area(1), all in the Sapyginae; ~80 spp. total
Size
10‒15 mm(1)
Identification
Usually black spotted or banded with yellow, eyes deeply notched. Short legs. Differ from Myzininae (Tiphiidae) in being smaller and in lacking mesosternal lobes. Differ from Mutillidae in having the body bare.
key to genera in(2)
Food
Larvae are parasites or cleptoparasites of other aculeate larvae, esp. of leaf-cutting bees that nest in hollow twigs(1)
Remarks
Widespread but rather uncommon
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.A new Nearctic genus of Sapygidae with a key to the Nearctic and Palaearctic genera (Hymenoptera, Sapygidae)
Kurzenko N.V. 1996. Mem. Ent. Soc. Wash. 17: 89-94.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 18 May, 2006 - 10:27am
Additional contributions by waspGeorge, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, PaleoJon, bdagley
Last updated 30 August, 2023 - 11:19am

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