Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species)...
7 KB (725 words) - 00:05, 18 November 2023
Wasps play many ecological roles. Some are predators or pollinators, whether to feed themselves or to provision their nests. Many, notably the cuckoo...
63 KB (6,795 words) - 17:29, 19 July 2024
Chrysis ignita (redirect from Ruby-tailed wasp)
species of cuckoo wasp. It is one of a group of species which are difficult to separate and which may be referred to as ruby-tailed wasps. Cuckoo wasps are parasitoids...
19 KB (2,580 words) - 12:27, 3 December 2023
lineages of wasp including most of the Chrysididae, the cuckoo wasps, are kleptoparasites. The cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nests of other wasps, such...
36 KB (4,232 words) - 10:36, 11 August 2024
Gall wasps, also traditionally called gallflies, are hymenopterans of the family Cynipidae in the wasp superfamily Cynipoidea. Their common name comes...
13 KB (1,246 words) - 06:14, 7 June 2024
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species...
25 KB (2,825 words) - 14:09, 25 July 2024
Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside figs. Some are pollinators but others simply feed off the plant...
20 KB (1,961 words) - 21:42, 17 July 2024
Chrysis angolensis is a species of cuckoo wasp in the family Chrysididae, found throughout much of the world. It has been recently recorded as being introduced...
2 KB (104 words) - 16:10, 31 December 2023
ability to build their own nests, and are sometimes referred to as "cuckoo paper wasps". They rely on the nests of their hosts to raise their brood. A few...
12 KB (1,178 words) - 22:52, 8 August 2024
Stilbum cyanurum (redirect from Large cuckoo wasp)
Stilbum cyanurum, is a large Old World species of cuckoo wasps (insects in the family Chrysididae). Stilbum cyanurum can reach a length of about 20 millimetres...
3 KB (164 words) - 22:33, 27 January 2023
Sclerodermus domesticus (category Parasitic wasps)
domesticum, Scleroderma domestica or "antiquarian's friend", is a species of cuckoo wasp in the insect genus Sclerodermus. It was first described by Pierre André...
4 KB (369 words) - 14:05, 3 December 2023
Hedychrum rutilans is a species of cuckoo wasps (insects in the family Chrysididae). The species occurs primarily in Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece,...
3 KB (287 words) - 02:41, 23 July 2024
Sceliphron caementarium (category Biological pest control wasps)
nature; however, nests are aggressively defended. A common species of cuckoo wasp, Chrysis angolensis, is frequently a cleptoparasite in Sceliphron nests...
12 KB (1,193 words) - 04:35, 21 July 2024
Sphecidae (redirect from Thread-waisted wasp)
a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps. The name Sphecidae was formerly...
9 KB (672 words) - 06:46, 22 May 2024
The name cuckoo paper wasp refers to a monophyletic species group of brood-parasitic paper wasps in the genus Polistes. This species group contains only...
2 KB (275 words) - 18:36, 29 August 2023
1918) – prairie yellowjacket Vespula austriaca (Panzer, 1799) – red cuckoo wasp Vespula consobrina (Saussure, 1854) – blackjacket Vespula flaviceps (Smith...
9 KB (738 words) - 01:28, 7 November 2023
Kleptoparasitism (section Bees and wasps)
are arthropods, especially bees and wasps, but including some true flies, dung beetles, bugs, and spiders. Cuckoo bees are specialized kleptoparasites...
24 KB (2,337 words) - 18:20, 4 April 2024
Hymenoptera (redirect from Black wasp)
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described...
28 KB (2,803 words) - 22:17, 4 July 2024
Evaniidae (redirect from Ensign wasp)
is a family of parasitoid wasps also known as ensign wasps, nightshade wasps, hatchet wasps, or cockroach egg parasitoid wasps. They number around 20 extant...
13 KB (1,238 words) - 09:21, 22 June 2023
Chrysura austriaca (redirect from Austrian cuckoo wasp)
Chrysura austriaca, also known as the Austrian cuckoo wasp, is a species of parasitic wasp within the family Chrysididae. Chrysura austriaca can range...
3 KB (267 words) - 09:17, 10 April 2024
Siberia.V. austriaca wasps pollinate orchids. In some literature, V. austriaca is mentioned under the common name "Cuckoo wasp", but this should not...
7 KB (705 words) - 15:41, 27 March 2024
Chrysis fulgida, the ruby-tailed wasp, is a species of cuckoo wasp in the family Chrysididae. This species has a Palearctic distribution (Europe, Central...
4 KB (357 words) - 20:09, 30 July 2023
Ichneumonidae (redirect from Scorpion wasp)
Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera...
33 KB (3,451 words) - 03:46, 2 July 2024
and sphecoid wasps) Family Ampulicidae (cockroach wasps) Family Andrenidae (mining bees) Family Apidae (carpenter bees, digger bees, cuckoo bees, bumble...
14 KB (1,133 words) - 14:48, 15 August 2024
Chrysis is a very large genus of cuckoo wasps (insects in the family Chrysididae). It is the largest genus in the family, including over 1,000 species...
15 KB (987 words) - 11:26, 28 May 2024
Horntail (redirect from Horntail wasp)
Horntail or wood wasp are any of the 150 non-social species of the hymenopteran family Siricidae, a type of wood-eating sawfly. The common name "horntail"...
13 KB (1,422 words) - 08:15, 1 August 2024
of cuckoo wasp, first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. Chrysis viridula is included in the genus Chrysis, and the family Chrysididae (the cuckoo wasps)...
5 KB (541 words) - 04:25, 21 October 2023
Vespidae (redirect from Vespid wasp)
of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. Each...
6 KB (634 words) - 21:18, 15 July 2024
Chrysidinae contains those species that are most commonly recognized as cuckoo wasps, being by far the largest and most familiar subfamily. The group contains...
5 KB (555 words) - 02:26, 3 May 2024