Crabronidae
Crabronidae | |
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Tachysphex sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Apoidea |
Family: | Crabronidae Latreille, 1802 |
Subfamilies | |
Astatinae |
The Crabronidae are a large
paraphyletic group (nominally a family) of wasps, including nearly all of the species formerly comprising the now-defunct superfamily Sphecoidea. It collectively includes well over 200 genera, containing well over 9000 species. Crabronids were originally a part of the Sphecidae
, but the latter name is now restricted to a separate family based on what was once the subfamily Sphecinae. Several of the subfamilies of the Crabronidae are often treated as families in their own right, as is true of the most recent phylogenies (example below).
Phylogeny
This
Anthophila
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Apoidea |
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Subgroups
- Subfamily Astatinae (now ranked as a family)
- Astata, etc.
- Subfamily Bembicinae (now ranked as a family)
- Tribe Alyssontini
- Tribe Bembicini
- Tribe Gorytini
- Tribe Heliocausini
- Tribe Nyssonini
- Tribe Stizini
- Subfamily Crabroninae (incl. Eremiaspheciinae and Dinetinae)
- Subfamily Mellininae (now ranked as a family)
- Subfamily Pemphredoninae (recently split into three families)
- Microstigmus
- Lithium
- Pemphredon, etc.
- Subfamily Philanthinae (now ranked as a family)
- Cerceris
- Philanthus, etc.
Life cycle
-
Trypoxylon collinum larva
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Trypoxylon collinum pupa
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Trypoxylon collinum adult
See also
References
Sources
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crabronidae.
- Image Gallery from Gembloux Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Larra spp., mole cricket hunters on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site