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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) » Sapyginae » Sapyga

Genus Sapyga

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Food · Works Cited
Long antennae - Sapyga centrata - male sapygid wasp - Sapyga centrata - female Small wasp on red currant - Sapyga centrata Sapyga louisi? - Sapyga louisi Bee Wolf Wasp? - Sapyga Hymenoptera. Sapyga sp. - Sapyga louisi Sapyga centrata? - Sapyga centrata Small, narrow wasp - Sapyga centrata
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)
Subfamily Sapyginae
Genus Sapyga
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Several spp. traditionally treated in this genus have been moved to other genera as follows:(1)
Sapyga aculeata Cresson, 1865 is transferred to Krombeinopyga
Sapyga elegans Cresson 1880 is transferred to Polochrum
Sapyga pumila Cresson 1880 is transferred to Krombeinopyga

Sapyga louisi Krombein, 1938 is yet to be transferred to Sapygina
Explanation of Names
Sapyga Latreille, 1796
= from the Greek σαός (saos) 'safe, well, whole' + πῡγή (pȳgé) 'rump, buttocks, tail'
Numbers
8 spp. in our area, many in the Old World
1. Sapyga angustata: AZ, CA, CO, NV, UT, WA, WY
2. Sapyga centrata: ON south to SC, WV, IL, & TX
3. Sapyga confluenta: CO, NH
4. Sapyga interrupta: CO
5. Sapyga louisi: FL, MI, NJ, NY, TX
6. Sapyga maculata: QC
7. Sapyga martinii: Canada; CO, NH, UT, WA, WY
8. Sapyga nevadica: CA, ID, NV, OR, TX, UT, WA
Food
Cleptoparasites of bees. Feed on host larvae, stored pollen and nectar.
Works Cited
1.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 29 May, 2006 - 4:42pm
Additional contributions by kschnei, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 11 April, 2024 - 2:30am

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