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Family Thynnidae - Thynnid Wasps

Irvine Park Wasps #1 - Myzinum maculatum - female unknown wasp - Myzinum obscurum - female Small wasp on Eupatorium rotundifolium on Spring Island, Okatie, SC - Myzinum - male wasp - Myzinum - male Mining Bee? - Myzinum - male Wasp - Myzinum Flower Wasp? - Myzinum - male Myzinum female - Myzinum carolinianum - 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 Thynnoidea
Family Thynnidae (Thynnid Wasps)
Other Common Names
(Thynnid) Flower Wasps
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be treated as a subfamily of Tiphiidae
Explanation of Names
Thynnidae Shuckard 1841
Numbers
4 genera with 16 spp. in our area representing 3 subfamilies; ~109 genera arranged into 5 subfamilies worldwide
Identification
Tegula elongate or circular, reaching beyond scutum
Range
Worldwide, most diverse in Australia
Food
parastoids of beetle larvae