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Astatinae
Astatinae are a cosmopolitan group of solitary wasps, peculiar for their males having very large compound eyes that broadly meet at the top of the head. The largest genus in this subfamily is ''Astata ''Astata'' is a cosmopolitan genus of solitary predatory wasps in the subfamily Astatinae. They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of Pentatomidae. ''Astata'' is the largest genus in this subfamily, and is identified by features of its wing v ...'', with about half of more than 160 species in the subfamily. Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea published in 2018 suggested that Astatinae, along with several other subfamilies and a subtribe, should be promoted to family rank: Ammoplanina (= Ammoplanidae), Astatinae (= Astatidae), Bembicinae (= Bembicidae), Mellininae (= Mellinidae), Pemphredoninae (= Pemphredonidae), Philanthinae (= Philanthidae), and Pseninae (= Psenidae). References Crabronidae Apocrita subfamilies Biological pest control wasps {{Apoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crabronidae
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 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 Crabronidae are often treated as families in their own right, as is true of the most recent phylogenies (example below). Phylogeny This phylogenetic tree is based on Sann ''et al.'', 2018, which used phylogenomics to demonstrate that both the bees (Anthophila) and the Sphecidae arose from within the former Crabronidae, which is therefore paraphyletic, and which they suggested should be split into several families; the former family Heterogynaidae nests within the Bembicidae, as here defined. These findings differ in several details from studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astata Male
''Astata'' is a cosmopolitan genus of solitary predatory wasps in the subfamily Astatinae. They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of Pentatomidae. ''Astata'' is the largest genus in this subfamily, and is identified by features of its wing venation. The males of this genus and the related genus ''Dryudella'' have very large compound eyes that broadly meet at the top of the head. There are 94 species and subspecies of ''Astata'' worldwide, a few of which are listed here: *'' Astata affinis'' *'' Astata apostata'' Mercet, 1910 *'' Astata bicolor'' *''Astata boops ''Astata boops'' is a Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists ...'' (Schrank, 1781) *'' Astata brevitarsus'' Puławski, 1958 *'' Astata costae'' A. Costa, 1867 *'' Astata diversipes'' Puławski, 1955 *'' Astata gallica'' de Beaumont, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astata
''Astata'' is a cosmopolitan genus of solitary predatory wasps in the subfamily Astatinae. They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of Pentatomidae. ''Astata'' is the largest genus in this subfamily, and is identified by features of its wing venation. The males of this genus and the related genus ''Dryudella'' have very large compound eyes that broadly meet at the top of the head. There are 94 species and subspecies of ''Astata'' worldwide, a few of which are listed here: *'' Astata affinis'' *'' Astata apostata'' Mercet, 1910 *'' Astata bicolor'' *''Astata boops ''Astata boops'' is a Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists ...'' (Schrank, 1781) *'' Astata brevitarsus'' Puławski, 1958 *'' Astata costae'' A. Costa, 1867 *'' Astata diversipes'' Puławski, 1955 *'' Astata gallica'' de Beaumont, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astata Boops
''Astata boops'' is a Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ... species of solitary wasp. It is associated with sandy habitats and preys on the nymphs of pentatomid bugs. References External linksImages representing ''Astata boops'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q309803 Hymenoptera of Europe Crabronidae Insects described in 1781 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diploplectron
''Diploplectron'' is a genus of wasps in the family Crabronidae. There are more than 20 described species in ''Diploplectron''. Species These 22 species belong to the genus ''Diploplectron'': * '' Diploplectron alexandri'' Kazenas, 1996 * '' Diploplectron asiaticum'' Pulawski, 1965 * '' Diploplectron beccum'' F. Parker, 1972 * '' Diploplectron bidentatiformis'' Rohwer * '' Diploplectron brunneipes'' (Cresson, 1881) * '' Diploplectron californicum'' F. Parker, 1972 * '' Diploplectron diablense'' F. Williams, 1951 * '' Diploplectron ferrugineum'' Ashmead, 1899 * '' Diploplectron florissantensis'' Rohwer * '' Diploplectron fossor'' Rohwer, 1909 * '' Diploplectron irwini'' F. Parker, 1972 * ''Diploplectron kantsi'' Pate, 1941 * '' Diploplectron kriegeri'' Brauns, 1899 * '' Diploplectron neotropicum'' F. Parker, 1972 * '' Diploplectron orizabense'' F. Parker, 1972 * '' Diploplectron palearcticum'' Pulawski, 1958 * '' Diploplectron peglowi'' Krombein, 1939 * '' Diploplectron pulawskii' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dryudella
''Dryudella'' is a genus of wasps in the family Crabronidae 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 9 .... There are more than 50 described species in ''Dryudella''. Species These 57 species belong to the genus ''Dryudella'': * '' Dryudella albohirsuta'' Kazenas, 2000 * '' Dryudella amenartais'' (Pulawski, 1959) * '' Dryudella aquitana'' (Pulawski, 1970) * '' Dryudella arabica'' Schmid-Egger, 2014 * '' Dryudella aralensis'' Kazenas, 2000 * '' Dryudella beaumonti'' (Pulawski, 1959) * '' Dryudella bella'' (Cresson, 1881) * '' Dryudella bidens'' Kazenas, 2000 * '' Dryudella bifasciata'' (von Schulthess, 1926) * '' Dryudella caerulea'' (Cresson, 1881) * '' Dryudella deserti'' Schmid-Egger, 2014 * '' Dryudella dichoptica'' Kazenas, 2000 * '' Dryudella elegans'' (Cresson, 1881) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolitan Distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The extreme opposite of a cosmopolitan species is an endemic one, being found only in a single geographical location. Qualification The caveat “in appropriate habitat” is used to qualify the term "cosmopolitan distribution", excluding in most instances polar regions, extreme altitudes, oceans, deserts, or small, isolated islands. For example, the housefly is highly cosmopolitan, yet is neither oceanic nor polar in its distribution. Related terms and concepts The term pandemism also is in use, but not all authors are consistent in the sense in which they use the term; some speak of pandemism mainly in referring to diseases and pandemics, and some as a term intermediate between endemism and cosmopolitanism, in effect regarding pandemism as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as bees and ants are deeply nested within the wasps, having evolved from wasp ancestors. Wasps that are members of the clade Aculeata can Stinger, sting their prey. The most commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae and are Eusociality, eusocial, living together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and non-reproducing workers. Eusociality is favoured by the unusual haplodiploid system of sex-determination system, sex determination in Hymenoptera, as it makes sisters exceptionally closely related to each other. However, the majority of wasp species are solitary, with each adult female living and breeding independently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compound Eye
A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It may consist of thousands of ommatidia, which are tiny independent photoreception units that consist of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells which distinguish brightness and color. The image perceived by this arthropod eye is a combination of inputs from the numerous ommatidia, which are oriented to point in slightly different directions. Compared with single-aperture eyes, compound eyes have poor image resolution; however, they possess a very large view angle and the ability to detect fast movement and, in some cases, the polarization of light. Because a compound eye is made up of a collection of ommatidia, each with its own lens, light will enter each ommatidium instead of using a single entrance point. The individual light receptors behind each lens are then turned on and off due to a series of changes in the light intensity during movement or when an object in moving, creating a flic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocrita Subfamilies
Apocrita is a suborder of insects in the order Hymenoptera. It includes wasps, bees, and ants, and consists of many families. It contains the most advanced hymenopterans and is distinguished from Symphyta by the narrow "waist" ( petiole) formed between the first two segments of the actual abdomen; the first abdominal segment is fused to the thorax, and is called the propodeum. Therefore, it is general practice, when discussing the body of an apocritan in a technical sense, to refer to the mesosoma and metasoma (or gaster) rather than the "thorax" and "abdomen", respectively. The evolution of a constricted waist was an important adaption for the parasitoid lifestyle of the ancestral apocritan, allowing more maneuverability of the female's ovipositor. The ovipositor either extends freely or is retracted, and may be developed into a stinger for both defense and paralyzing prey. Larvae are legless and blind, and either feed inside a host (plant or animal) or in a nest cell prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
