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Bembicini
The Bembicini, or sand wasps, are a large tribe of crabronid wasps, comprising 20 genera. Bembicines are predators on various groups of insects. The type of prey captured tends to be rather consistent within each genus, with flies (Diptera) being the most common type of prey taken. Nests are typically short, simple burrows, with a single enlarged chamber at the bottom which is stocked with freshly paralysed prey items for the developing wasp larva; the egg may sometimes be laid before the chamber is completely stocked. It is common for numerous females to excavate nests within a small area where the soil is suitable, creating large and sometimes very dense nesting aggregations, which tend to attract various species of parasitic flies and wasps, many of which are cleptoparasites; in some cases, the sand wasps prey on their own parasites, a surprisingly rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Although sand wasps are normally yellow and black, some are black and white with bright gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zyzzyx
''Zyzzyx'' is a monospecific genus of sand wasp, containing a brightly coloured, medium-sized species, ''Zyzzyx chilensis''. It is primarily a predator on flies Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ..., but has been observed to consume skippers. "''Zyzzyx''" is a replacement name proposed in 1937 by V. S. L. Pate for ''Therapon'', originally described by J. Parker in 1929. ''Z. chilensis'' is found in Chile, Peru, and Argentina. References Crabronidae Apoidea genera Biological pest control wasps Monotypic Hymenoptera genera Hymenoptera of South America {{Apoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bembix Rostrata
''Bembix rostrata'' is a species of sand wasp native to Central Europe. The genus ''Bembix'' - of which ''B. rostrata'' is among the most distinctive species - has over 340 species worldwide and is found mostly in warm regions with open, sandy soils; Australia and Africa have a particularly rich variety of species. Distribution ''Bembix rostrata'' ranges in distribution from Europe and the Mediterranean to Central Asia, and as far north as Denmark and Sweden. Characteristics ''Bembix rostrata'' displays distinctive behaviour in front of its nest, digging its burrows with fast, synchronised movements of its forelegs. In addition, the insect can turn very rapidly about its own axis, the flapping of its wings as it does this producing a buzzing sound reminiscent of a gyroscope. Its size (), striking yellow and black-striped abdomen and the labrum, extended into a narrow beak, are distinctive features. Life History ''Bembix rostrata'' goes through 4 general life stages: e ... [...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] |
Bembix
''Bembix'' is a large cosmopolitan genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 380 species. List of species (Europe) * '' Bembix bicolor'' Radoszkowski 1877 * '' Bembix bidentata'' Vander Linden 1829 * '' Bembix cinctella'' Handlirsch 1893 * '' Bembix flavescens'' F. Smith 1856 * '' Bembix geneana'' A. Costa 1867 * '' Bembix megerlei'' Dahlbom 1845 * '' Bembix merceti'' J. Parker 1904 * '' Bembix oculata'' Panzer 1801 * '' Bembix olivacea'' Fabricius 1787 * '' Bembix pallida'' Radoszkowski 1877 * ''Bembix rostrata ''Bembix rostrata'' is a species of sand wasp native to Central Europe. The genus ''Bembix'' - of which ''B. rostrata'' is among the most distinctive species - has over 340 species worldwide and is found mostly in warm regions with open, sandy so ...'' (Linnaeus 1758) * '' Bembix sinuata'' Panzer 1804 * '' Bembix tarsata'' Latreille 1809 * '' Bembix turca'' Dahlbom 1845 * '' Bembix wagleri'' Gistel 1857 * '' Bembix zonata'' K ... [...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] |
Stictiella
''Stictiella'' is a genus of sand wasps in the family Crabronidae. There are at least 14 described species in ''Stictiella''. Sharkey M.J. (2007). ''Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera''. "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera", Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. ''Cladistics'' 28(1): 80-112. Species * '' Stictiella boharti'' Gillaspy, 1985 * '' Stictiella callista'' J. Parker, 1917 * '' Stictiella corniculata'' Mickel, 1918 * '' Stictiella emarginata'' (Cresson, 1865) * '' Stictiella evansi'' Gillaspy, 1961 * '' Stictiella fergusoni'' R. Bohart, 1985 * '' Stictiella flavescens'' Gillaspy, 1985 * '' Stictiella formosa'' (Cresson, 1873) * '' Stictiella gillaspyi'' R. Bohart, 1982 * '' Stictiella pulchella'' (Cresson, 1865) * '' Stictiella speciosa'' (Cresson, 1865) * '' Stictiella spinifera'' (Mickel, 1916) * '' Stictiella tuberculata'' (W. Fox, 1895) * '' Stictiella villegasi'' R. Bohart, 1982 (algodones sand wasp) Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stictia
''Stictia'' is a largely neotropical genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 30 species. List of species (selected) * '' Stictia andrei'' (Handlirsch, 1890) * '' Stictia antiopa'' (Handlirsch, 1890) * '' Stictia arcuata'' (Gruppe Taschenberg, 1870) * '' Stictia carolina'' (Fabricius, 1793) * '' Stictia croceata'' (Lepeletier, 1845) * '' Stictia decemmaculata'' (Packard, 1869) * ''Stictia decorata'' (Gruppe Taschenberg, 1870) * ''Stictia dives'' (Handlirsch, 1890) * ''Stictia flexuosa'' (Gruppe Taschenberg, 1870) * ''Stictia heros'' (Fabricius, 1804) * ''Stictia infracta'' J.Parker, 1929 * ''Stictia maccus'' (Handlirsch, 1895) * ''Stictia maculata'' (Fabricius, 1804) * ''Stictia medea'' (Handlirsch, 1890) * ''Stictia megacera'' Parker * ''Stictia mexicana'' (Handlirsch, 1890) * ''Stictia pantherina'' (Handlirsch, 1890) * ''Stictia punctata'' (Fabricius, 1775) * ''Stictia signata'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Stictia sombrana'' J.Parker, 1929 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bembix Sp
''Bembix'' is a large cosmopolitan genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 380 species. List of species (Europe) * '' Bembix bicolor'' Radoszkowski 1877 * '' Bembix bidentata'' Vander Linden 1829 * '' Bembix cinctella'' Handlirsch 1893 * '' Bembix flavescens'' F. Smith 1856 * ''Bembix geneana'' A. Costa 1867 * ''Bembix megerlei'' Dahlbom 1845 * ''Bembix merceti'' J. Parker 1904 * ''Bembix oculata'' Panzer 1801 * ''Bembix olivacea'' Fabricius 1787 * ''Bembix pallida'' Radoszkowski 1877 * ''Bembix rostrata'' (Linnaeus 1758) * ''Bembix sinuata'' Panzer 1804 * '' Bembix tarsata'' Latreille 1809 * ''Bembix turca'' Dahlbom 1845 * ''Bembix wagleri'' Gistel 1857 * ''Bembix zonata'' Klug 1835 See also * List of Bembix species * ''Bembix variabilis'' McCaffrey, S & Gibson, L 2009 It is an Australian native species that is a pest on hives of the native bee, ''Tetragonula carbonara'' External linksHymis.dePhotographs of Palearctic The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editha
''Editha'' is a small genus of large, brightly colored sand wasps, restricted to South America. They are specialized predators of butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ..., and after capturing and paralyzing their prey, they strip the wings off before placing the bodies in an underground cell to serve as food for the wasp larva. References * Crabronidae Apoidea genera Hymenoptera of South America {{Apoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleptoparasite
Kleptoparasitism (etymologically, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another. The strategy is evolutionarily stable when stealing is less costly than direct feeding, which can mean when food is scarce or when victims are abundant. Many kleptoparasites are arthropods, especially bees and wasps, but including some true flies, dung beetles, bugs, and spiders. Cuckoo bees are specialized kleptoparasites which lay their eggs either on the pollen masses made by other bees, or on the insect hosts of parasitoid wasps. They are an instance of Emery's rule, which states that insect social parasites tend to be closely related to their hosts. The behavior occurs, too, in vertebrates including birds such as skuas, which persistently chase other seabirds until they disgorge their food, and carnivorous mammals such as spotted hyenas and lions. Other species opportunistically indulge in kleptoparasitism. Strategy Kleptoparasitism is a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicyrtes
''Bicyrtes'' is a genus of large, often brightly coloured predatory sand wasps. Many species in this genus provision their nests with paralyzed Pentatomidae, while other species make use of Reduviidae and Coreidae instead. This genus gets its name ("two-humped") from the two noticeable projections arising from the rear of the mesosoma (middle segment). Selected species * '' Bicyrtes affinis'' (Cameron, 1897) * '' Bicyrtes capnopterus'' (Handlirsch, 1889) * '' Bicyrtes diodontus'' (Handlirsch, 1889) * '' Bicyrtes discisus'' (Taschenberg, 1870) * '' Bicyrtes fodiens'' (Handlirsch, 1889) * '' Bicyrtes insidiatrix'' (Handlirsch, 1889) * '' Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus'' (Say, 1824) * '' Bicyrtes spinosus'' (Fabricius, 1794) * '' Bicyrtes variegatus'' (Olivier, 1789) * '' Bicyrtes viduatus'' (Handlirsch, 1889) * '' Bicyrtes ventralis'' (Say, 1824) References Crabronidae Apoidea genera Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier {{Apoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diptera
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced mechanosensory organs known as halteres, which act as high-speed sensors of rotational movement and allow dipterans to perform advanced aerobatics. Diptera is a large order containing an estimated 1,000,000 species including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies and others, although only about 125,000 species have been described. Flies have a mobile head, with a pair of large compound eyes, and mouthparts designed for piercing and sucking (mosquitoes, black flies and robber flies), or for lapping and sucking in the other groups. Their wing arrangement gives them great maneuverability in flight, and claws and pads on their feet enable them to cling to smooth surfaces. Flies undergo complete metamorphosis; the eggs are often laid on the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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