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CLASSIFICATION
OF HYMENOPTERA
(Contacts)
Families in Green color Hymenoptera
Details
Insecta: Holometabola HYMENOPTERA Suborder: Symphyta (Chalastogastra)--sawflies horntails (mostly
phytophagous) <Characteristics>
Superfamily:
Cephoidea <Overview>
Cephidae (stem sawflies) Superfamily: Pamphilioidea <Overview>
(= Megalodontoidea)
Megalondontesidae (pectinate antennae) <Overview> Pamphiliidae (web-spoinning
& leaf rolling sawflies)
<Overview>
Superfamily:
Orussoidea <Overview>
Orussidae (parasitic wood wasps)
<Overview>; <Adults>
Superfamily:
Siricoidea <Overview>
Anaxyelidae (cedar wood wasp--1 species)
Siricidae (horntails or wood wasps) <Overview>
Superfamily:
Tenthredinoidea (sawflies)
Argidae (reduced antenna sawflies) <Overview>
Blasticotomidae (fern stem borers) Cimbicidae (hairy
sawflies)
Diprionidae (conifer sawflies) <Overview>
Pergidae (West Hemisphere & Australia sawflies)
Tenthredinidae (largest sawfly family) <Overview>; <Adults>
Superfamily:
Xyeloidea <Overview>
Xyelidae (oldest fossil Hymenoptera)
Xiphydriidae (globose head wood wasps) Suborder: APOCRITA (Aculeata (stinging Hymenoptera) Aculeata Superfamily: Apoidea
<Overview>
Andrenidae (mining bees) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Apidae <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> (Largest family, incl. digger bees,
honeybees, carpenter bees, etc.) Colletidae (yellow-faced bees, plasterer or
polyester bees) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Dasypodaidae (shaggy scopae
bees)
Halictidae (sweat bees) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles>
Megachilidae (mason or leaf-cutting bees) <Habits>; Melittidae (Small family
in Africa & N. Hemisphere (Subfam: Dasypodainae, Melittinae, Meganomiinae) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Stenotritidae (smallest bee family) <Habits>; <Adults>
Ampulicidae (tropical cockroach wasps) <Overview> Crabronidae ( Paraphyletic
group of bee wolves & sand wasps) <Overview> Heterogynaidae
(Small family in Africa east
Mediterranean) Sphecidae (Cosmopolitan
sand & digger wasps, mud
daubers & parasitoidal wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Superfamily: Chrysidoidea (= Bethyloidea) <Overview> Bethylidae (parasitic
& hunting wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Chrysididae (cuckoo or
emerald wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Dryinidae (cosmopolitan
solitary wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Embolemidae (Small &
rare wasp family) <Habits>; Plumariidae (Small group in Southern Hemisphere) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Sclerogibbidae
(ectoparasitic on Embioptera) <Habits>; Scolebythidae (Small tropical species) <Habits>; <Adults> Superfamily: Vespoidea <Overview> Bradynobaenidae
(Like Mutillidae occurring in arid
regions) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles>
Formicidae (ants) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles>
Mutillidae (Large hairy velvet ants) Pompilidae (Cosmopolitan
spider wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Rhopalosomatidae
(Ant-like cosmopolitan
wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Sapygidae (Solitary dark
wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Scoliidae (Dark colored
wasps with corrugated wing tips) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles>
Sierolomorphidae
(Rare wasp species of N. Hemisphere) Tiphiidae (Wasp larvae parasitic on beetle
larvae) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Vespidae (paper wasps, hornets, yellow jackets) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Parasitica
Superfamily:
Ceraphronoidea <Overivew> Ceraphronidae (Small family) <Habits>; <Adults> Megaspilidae (Small parasitic family) <Habits>; <Adults>
Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea <Overview>; <General References>
Agaonidae (fig wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Aphelinidae (Tiny parasitic
wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Chalcididae (Mainly
parasitic wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Encyrtidae (Large family
of parasitic wasps) <Habits>;
<Adults-1> <Adults-2>; <Juveniles> |
Eucharitidae (Parasitic on
ants) <Habits>; <Adults> Eulophidae (Parasitic
wasps with large host range) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Eupelmidae (Parasitic
wasps of beetles primarily) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Eurytomidae (seed chalcids
& some parasitoids) <Habits>; Leucospidae (Ectoparasitic
on aculeate wasps or bees) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Mymaridae (Tiny cosmopolitan fairy flies) <Habits>; Ormyridae (Small
parasitic or gall- forming wasp
family) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Perilampidae (Small family of mainly hyperasitoids) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Pteromalidae (Large family
of parasitoidal wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Rotoitidae (Small family of parasitoids in
Southern Hemisphere.
<Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Signiphoridae (Small family
of parasitic wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Tanaostigmatidae (Small familyof
phytophagous wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Tetracampidae (Parasitic on phytophagous insects) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Torymidae (metallic wasps thatare parasitoids or
gall- formers)
<Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Trichogrammatidae
(Tiny wasps parasitic on insect eggs. <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Superfamily: Cynipoidea <Overview>
Austrocynipidae (Australian
wasp species)
Cynipidae (True gall wasps)
<Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Figitidae (Large family
of parasitic wasps) <Habits>; Ibaliidae (Wasps parasitic on Siricidae larvae) <Habits>; Liopteridae (Wood-boring
parasitoids) <Habits>; <Adults>
Superfamily:
Evanioidea <Overview> Aulacidae (Small family
parasitic primarily on Xiphydriidae)
<Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Evaniidae (ensign wasps parasiticon cockroaches) <Habits>; Gasteruptiidae
(Uniformly appearing wasps parasitic on solitary
bees & wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles>
Superfamily:
Ichneumonoidea <Overview> Apozygidae <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Braconidae (Very large family of parasitoid wasps) <Habits>; <Adults-1> <#2> <#3> <Juveniles> Aphidiinae <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Ichneumonidae (ichneumon wasps important as
parasitoids of
other insects) <Habits>; <Adults-1> <#2> <#3>;
Superfamily:
Megalyroidea <Overview> Megalyridae (Primarily
Southern Hemispheric wasps
parasitic on idiobont endoparasitoids of
insect larvae) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles>
Superfamily: Mymarommatoidea
(Serphitoidea) <Overview> Mymarommatidae (Callimomidae)
(Small family
of tiny
wasps, probably related to the Mymaridae ) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Superfamily: Platygastroidea Platygastridae
(Large family of wasps that parasitize insect
eggs or young larvae ) <Habits> <Adults> Scelionidae (Cosmopolitan group of parasitoid wasps
that
attack the eggs of insects or spiders) <Habits>;
Superfamily:
Proctotrupoidea <Overview> Austroniidae (Small group of parasitoids from
Australia) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Diapriidae (Very small
wasps that parasitize larvae &
pupae of many different insects)
<Habits>; Heloridae [formerly Mesoserphidae] (Small family
of
parasitic wasps that attack flies & Neuroptera) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Maamingidae (Parasitic wasps from New Zealand) Monomachidae [formerly Monoserphidae]
(Small family of
parasitic wasps in the Southern Hemisphere) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Pelecinidae (A single genus of shiny wasps from the
Americas with a short abdomen)
<Habits>; Peradeniidae (Small group of Australian parasitoids) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Proctorenyxidae (Palearctic family of parasitic wasps) Proctotrupidae (= Serphidae)
(Moderately
large family of
parasitic wasps) <Habits>; <Adults> Roproniidae (Single Nearctic genus of parasitic
wasp) <Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Serphidae (with Proctotrupidae)
<Habits>; <Adults> Vanhorniidae (Single Old World genus parasitizing Eucnemidae larvae)
<Habits>; <Adults> Superfamily: Stephanoidea <Overview> Stephanidae (Crown wasps,
parasitoids of beetle larvae)
<Habits>; <Adults> <Juveniles> Superfamily: Trigonaloidea <Overview> Trigonalidae (Small family of parasitoids attacking
social
Vespidae and Lepidoptera larvae)
<Habits>; Superfamilies,
Families & Subfamilies |
Details of Insect Taxonomic Groups Examples of beneficial species occur in almost every
insect order, and considerable information on morphology and habits has been
assembled. Therefore, the principal
groups of insect parasitoids and predators provide details that refer to the
entire class Insecta. These details
are available at <taxnames.htm>. |