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Liostenogaster Flavolineata
''Liostenogaster flavolineata'' (tropical hover wasp) is an insect that belongs to the wasp family Vespidae. This hairy-faced hover wasp species is predominantly found in South Asian rain forests, especially in Malaysia. Individual colonies of this species are very small, but aggregations of nests allow for interactions between many smaller colonies. Some worker wasps, known as "helpers", will move between multiple nests in an attempt to improve their position in the dominance hierarchy. Its nests are pale-colored and are usually built with mud. ''Liostenogaster flavolineata'' is one of the most studied species in the Stenogastrinae. Taxonomy and phylogeny ''Liostenogaster flavolineata'' is in the vespid subfamily Stenogastrinae, which is composed of about 58 different species of hover wasps in 7 genera ('' Anischnogaster'', ''Liostenogaster'', '' Eustenogaster'', '' Stenogaster'', ''Parischnogaster'', '' Metischnogaster'' and '' Coclischnogaster''). Like other hover wasp speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vespidae
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as ''Polistes fuscatus'', ''Vespa orientalis'', and ''Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen. In temperate social species, colonies usually last only one year, dying at the onset of winter. New queens and males (drones) are produced towards the end of the summer, and after mating, the queens hibernate over winter in cracks or other sheltered locations. The nests of most species are constructed out of mud, but polistines and vespines use plant fibers, chewed to form a sort of paper (also true of some stenogastrines). Many species are pollen vectors contributing to the pollination of several plants, being potential or even effective pollinators, while others are notable predators of pest insect species. The sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenogastrinae
The Stenogastrinae are a subfamily of social wasps included in the family Vespidae. They are sometimes called hover wasps owing to the particular hovering flight of some species. Their morphology and biology present interesting peculiarities. Systematic position The first reports on stenogastrine wasps can be found in a book of Guérin de Méneville (1831) with the first known species, ''Stenogaster fulgipennis''. Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure treated their systematic position and remarked that these wasps were, in all their characters, entirely intermediate between the two subfamilies of Eumeninae and Vespinae. In 1927, Anton von Schulthess-Rechberg created the new genus ''Parischnogaster'' for some species living in the Oriental region. Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht created four new genera including species from the entire area of distribution and described tens of new species. He revised the two Papuan genera'' Anischnogaster'' and ''Stenogaster '' and the or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liostenogaster
''Liostenogaster'' is a genus of hover wasps from the subfamily Stenogastrinae of the family Vespidae which has a distribution centred on south-east Asia. It was named by the Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht from material collected by Japanese scientists on an expedition to Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia which took place in 1966. Species The following species are currently assigned to ''Liostenogaster'': * '' Liostenogaster abstrusa'' Turillazzi 1999 * '' Liostenogaster campanulae'' Turillazzi 1999 * '' Liostenogaster filicis'' Turillazzi 1999 * '' Liostenogaster flaviplagiata'' (Cameron, 1902) * '' Liostenogaster flavolineata'' (Cameron, 1902) * '' Liostenogaster nitidipennis'' (de Saussure, 1853) * '' Liostenogaster pardii'' Turillazzi & Carfi 1996 * '' Liostenogaster picta'' (Smith, 1860) * '' Liostenogaster topographica'' Turillazzi 1999 * '' Liostenogaster tutua'' Turillazzi 1999 * '' Liostenogaster variapicta'' (Rohwer, 1919) * ''Liostenogaster vechti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenogaster
''Senogaster'' is a genus of hoverfly Hover flies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while ... in the family Syrphidae. Species *'' Senogaster dentipes'' ( Fabricius, 1787) References Eristalinae Hoverfly genera Diptera of South America Taxa named by Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart {{syrphidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parischnogaster
''Parischnogaster'' is a genus of hover wasps from the subfamily Stenogastrinae, a subfamily of eusocial wasps endemic to the Oriental Region which are included in the family Vespidae. Species The following species are some of those included within the genus ''Parischnogaster'': *'' Parischnogaster albofasciata'' Selis, 2018 *''Parischnogaster alternata'' Sakag., 1969 *'' Parischnogaster aurifrons'' (Smith, 1862) *'' Parischnogaster carepenteri'' Selis, 2018 *'' Parischnogaster curvylypeus'' Selis, 2018 *'' Parischnogaster depressigaster'' Rohwer, 1919 *'' Parischnogaster giglii'' Selis, 2015 *'' Parischnogaster gracilipes'' (Vecht, 1977) *'' Parischnogaster jacobsoni'' ( R. du Buysson, 1913) *''Parischnogaster mellyi'' (de Saussure, 1852) *'' Parischnogaster mindanaobis'' Selis, 2018 *'' Parischnogaster nigerrima'' Selis, 2018 *'' Parischnogaster nigricans'' ( Cameron, 1902) **''Parischnogaster nigricans serrei'' ( R. du Buysson, 1905) *'' Parischnogaster nigriterga'' Selis, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liostenogaster Vechti
''Liostenogaster vechti'' is a type of eusocial hover wasp within the family Vespidae. They are typically brown and yellow in color and are considered a passive aggressive species. Their stings are less painful to humans than other social wasps, and they engage in associative nest foundation. They are mostly found on the Malaysian peninsula and are known for living in large clusters of small ring-shaped nests. Taxonomy and phylogeny ''Liostenogaster vechti ''was first classified by Stefano Turillazzi in 1988. These wasps are part of the subfamily Stenogastrinae and are often referred to as hover wasps due to their manner of flying. Stenogastrinae has many other groups that are distributed across the Oriental region, but the species most closely associated with ''L. vechti'' is '' L. flavolineata'' due to similar coloring, behavioral patterns, and the similar locations of the two species. Description and identification The adult females are 14 to 16 mm in length with d ... [...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] |
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