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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Diaprioidea » Diapriidae » Diapriinae » Diapriini

Tribe Diapriini

Classification · Numbers · Habitat · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Little Eyes - Trichopria - female Small Black Wasp - Basalys - female Hymenoptera - Diapriidae? - Basalys - female Hymenoptera - Basalys - male Tiny Wasp - Basalys - female Wasp - Trichopria - female Hymenoptera - unknown parasitic wasp - Basalys Diapriid wasp - Diapria - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Diaprioidea
Family Diapriidae
Subfamily Diapriinae
Tribe Diapriini
Numbers
the most speciose and diverse tribe of the subfamily, with 17 genera in our area and 33 in the New World(1)
Habitat
includes all true symphilic genera, some of them considerably adapted morphologically to life with ants(1)
Life Cycle
The biological ground plan is primary parasitism (solitary or gregarious) of various Diptera; several species were reared from coleopterous hosts, members associated with ants are known or assumed to parasitize ant larvae; some species are aquatic(1)
Works Cited
1.The genera of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the New World
Masner L., García J.L. 2002. Bull. AMNH 268: 1‒138.
Contributed by v belov on 24 August, 2012 - 1:09am
Last updated 25 August, 2012 - 12:31pm

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