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CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEDOIDEA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William H. Ashmead
Affiliation:
Assistant Curator, Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum.

Extract

The wasps belonging in this family have a peculiar habitus quite their own. The head is always wider than the thorax, the front wings have three cubital cells, while the abdomen, in nearly all the species, has usually a strong constriction between the first and second segments, the first segment being most frequently much narrowed. In only a single genus, Trachypus, Klug., is the abdomen distinctly petiolated. The eyes are large and normal, but occasionally exhibit a slight emargination within, and, more rarely, with a distinct emargination, or reniform as in Trypoxylon and Pison. Most of the species have the abdomen strongly punctured or punctate, and have also a constriction between all the abdominal sutures, although some also have the abdomen smooth and polished, and are without a constriction at the sutures.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1899

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