Hymenoptera

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Hymenoptera family identification
Anisa Albisser
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Siricidae (horntails & wood wasps) -anal spine! -long antennae
Cimbicidae -clubbed antennae -large bodied, resemble bees
Diprionidae (pine sawflies) -antennae: comb-like male saw-like female
Tenthredinidae -5 to 9 flagellomere antennae -green, brown, yellow or white patterns
Argidae -no flagellomere antennae
Andrenidae (android bee) - focus on wings! -3 closed cells -straight(ish) B line
Apidae - subfamily Bombinae (bumble bee) -robust black and yellow body -hind wing lack juggle lobe
Apidae - subfamily Apinae (honeybees) -focus on wing venation! -parallel sided third cell -golden brown colour
Halictidae -often metallic colouring -3 submarginal cells -distinct curved B line
Megachilidae (leaf cutting bees) -2 submarginal cells -stout body and large head with tuft of hair
Sphecidae (mud dauber) -thread waist -wing veins don't meet margin -large jugal lobe
Mutillidae (Velvet ant) -small, ant-like wasps -wingless females
Chrysididae (cuckoo wasp) -tiny -metallic blue or green -"teeth" coming out of butt
Formicidae (ants) -geniculate antennae -some winged -look for petiole (hump on waist)
Pompilidae (spider wasps) -2 tarsal spines -smoky or yellowish wings
Vespidae (paper wasp, hornets, yellow jack) -black and yellow colouring -wings folded at rest -long discoidal cell
Braconidae -slender with long antennae -larger stigma -2m-cu of fore wing absent
Ichneumonidae -narrow and constricted propodecum -"horse head" wing -2m-cu line present
A: Ichneumonidae B: Braconidae
Torymidae (Chalcidoidea superfamily) -marginal vein very long -enlarged hind legs -obvious ovipositor in females
Pteromalidae (Chalcidoidea superfamily) -dark bluish green colour -marginal vein and postmarginal vein equal -antennal scape as long as eye
Perilampidae (Chalcidoidea superfamily) -robust thorax with pock marks -some metallic green, others black
Mymaridae (Chalcidoidea superfamily) -Antennae inserts closer to eyes that to each other -Clubbed-like antennae -Front wing wider than back
Mymarommatidae (Chalcidoidea superfamily) -TINY -fringed wings
Ceraphronidae (Proctotrupoidea superfamily) -forewing venation: small, linear stigma with long stigmal vein
Platygastridae (Proctotrupoidea superfamily) -ovipositor (tube thing)
Megaspilidae (Proctotrupoidea superfamily) -distinct wing: large semicircular stigma stimuli vein
Scelionidae (Proctotrupoidea superfamily) -Antecostal subcus (indents on abdomen) -Fore wing with stigma vein forms fork with post marginal vein
Diapriidae (Proctotrupoidea superfamily) -long scape of antennae -antennae inserted high above clypeus -long metasoma (waist)
Leucospidae -hind femora is swollen and toothed -black, brown or yellowish
Proctotrupidae -wing venation: large stigma followed by small marginal cell
Chalcididae -inverted antennae -thick femur
Cynipidae (gall wasp) -large triangular radial cell on wing
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