132 relations: Abdomen, Aculeata, Agaonidae, Ampulicidae, Andrenidae, Ant, Anthophorini, Aphelinidae, Apidae, Apoidea, Aulacidae, Bee, Bembicinae, Bethylidae, Biological pest control, Braconidae, Bradynobaenidae, Bumblebee, Cambridge University Press, Carpenter bee, Caterpillar, Ceraphronidae, Ceraphronoidea, Chalcid wasp, Chalcididae, Chrysidoidea, Colletidae, Crabronidae, Cuckoo bee, Cuckoo wasp, Cynipoidea, Diapriidae, Dryinidae, Egg, Embolemidae, Encyrtidae, Eucharitidae, Euglossini, Eulophidae, Eupelmidae, Eurytomidae, Eusociality, Evaniidae, Evanioidea, Fairyfly, Family (biology), Fig wasp, Figitidae, Fly, Fungus, ..., Gall wasp, Gasteruptiidae, Halictidae, Heloridae, Hemiptera, Heterogyna, Honey bee, Hornet, Hymenoptera, Hyperparasite, Ibaliidae, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumonoidea, Insect, Leucospidae, Liopteridae, Maaminga, Megachilidae, Megalyridae, Megaspilidae, Melittidae, Mesosoma, Metamorphosis, Metasoma, Monophyly, Mutillidae, Mymarommatidae, Nectar, Order (biology), Ormyridae, Orussidae, Ovipositor, Paper wasp, Paraphyly, Parasitica, Parasitoid, Parasitoid wasp, Pelecinus, Pemphredoninae, Perilampidae, Petiole (insect anatomy), Philanthinae, Phylogenetic tree, Platygastridae, Platygastroidea, Plectroctena, Pollen, Pollen wasp, Potter wasp, Proctotrupidae, Proctotrupoidea, Propodeum, Pteromalidae, Rhopalosomatidae, Rotoitidae, Sapygidae, Sawfly, Scelionidae, Sclerogibbidae, Scolebythidae, Scoliidae, Sierolomorphidae, Signiphoridae, Sphecidae, Spider wasp, Stenotritidae, Stephanidae, Stinger, Stingless bee, Tanaostigmatidae, Tetracampidae, Tiphiidae, Torymidae, Trichogrammatidae, Trigonalidae, Vanhorniidae, Venom, Vespidae, Vespoidea, Wasp, Weevil, Yellowjacket. Expand index (82 more) »
Abdomen
The abdomen (less formally called the belly, stomach, tummy or midriff) constitutes the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
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Aculeata
Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera.
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Agaonidae
The family Agaonidae is a group of pollinating and nonpollinating fig wasps.
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Ampulicidae
The Ampulicidae, or cockroach wasps, are a small (about 170 species), primarily tropical family of sphecoid wasps, all of which use various cockroaches as prey for their larvae.
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Andrenidae
The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Anthophorini
The Anthophorini are a large tribe in the subfamily Apinae of the family Apidae.
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Aphelinidae
The Aphelinidae are a moderate-sized family of tiny parasitic wasps, with about 1160 described species in some 35 genera.
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Apidae
Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees.
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Apoidea
The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees.
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Aulacidae
The Aulacidae are a small, cosmopolitan family, with two extant genera containing some 200 known species.
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Bee
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.
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Bembicinae
The Bembicinae comprise a large subfamily of crabronid wasps that includes over 80 genera and over 1800 species which have a worldwide distribution.
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Bethylidae
The Bethylidae are a family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea.
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Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests such as insects, mites, weeds and plant diseases using other organisms.
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Braconidae
The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps.
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Bradynobaenidae
The Bradynobaenidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae.
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Bumblebee
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Carpenter bee
Carpenter bees are species in the genus Xylocopa of the subfamily Xylocopinae.
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Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
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Ceraphronidae
The Ceraphronidae are a small hymenopteran family with 14 genera and some 360 known species, though a great many species are still undescribed.
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Ceraphronoidea
The Ceraphronoidea are a small hymenopteran superfamily that includes only two families, and a total of some 800 species, though a great many species are still undescribed.
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Chalcid wasp
Chalcid wasps (for their metallic colour) are insects within the superfamily Chalcidoidea, part of the order Hymenoptera.
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Chalcididae
The Chalcididae are a moderate-sized family within the Chalcidoidea, composed mostly of parasitoids and a few hyperparasitoids.
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Chrysidoidea
The superfamily Chrysidoidea is a very large cosmopolitan group (some 6,000 described species, and many more undescribed), including many parasitoid or cleptoparasitic wasps.
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Colletidae
The Colletidae are a family of bees, and are often referred to collectively as plasterer bees or polyester bees, due to the method of smoothing the walls of their nest cells with secretions applied with their mouthparts; these secretions dry into a cellophane-like lining.
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Crabronidae
The Crabronidae are a large paraphyletic group (nominally a family) of wasps, including nearly all of the species formerly comprising the now-defunct superfamily Sphecoidea.
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Cuckoo bee
The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitic behaviour of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds.
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Cuckoo wasp
Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic colors created by structural coloration.
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Cynipoidea
The Cynipoidea are a moderate-sized hymenopteran superfamily that presently includes five modern families and three extinct families, though others have been recognized in the past.
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Diapriidae
The Diapriidae are a family of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera.
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Dryinidae
Dryinidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps.
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Egg
An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.
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Embolemidae
Embolemidae is a small family of around 20 species and 2 genera distributed around the world.
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Encyrtidae
Encyrtidae is a large family of parasitic wasps, with some 3710 described species in about 455 genera.
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Eucharitidae
The Eucharitidae are a family of parasitic wasps.
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Euglossini
The tribe Euglossini, in the subfamily Apinae, commonly known as orchid bees or Euglossine bees, are the only group of corbiculate bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusocial behavior.
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Eulophidae
The Eulophidae are a large family of hymenopteran insects, with over 4,300 described species in some 300 genera.
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Eupelmidae
Eupelmidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Eurytomidae
The Eurytomidae are a family within the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Eusociality
Eusociality (from Greek εὖ eu "good" and social), the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.
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Evaniidae
The Evaniidae, also known as the ensign wasps, nightshade wasps or hatchet wasps, are a family of parasitic wasps.
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Evanioidea
The Evanioidea are a small hymenopteran superfamily that includes three families, two of which (Aulacidae and Gasteruptiidae) are much more closely related to one another than they are to the remaining family, Evaniidae.
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Fairyfly
The Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies or fairy wasps, are a family of chalcid wasps found in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fig wasp
Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside figs.
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Figitidae
Figitidae is a family of parasitoid wasps.
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Fly
True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".
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Fungus
A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Gall wasp
Gall wasps, also called gallflies, are a family (Cynipidae) in the wasp superfamily Cynipoidea within the suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera.
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Gasteruptiidae
The Gasteruptiidae are one of the more distinctive families among the apocritan wasps, with surprisingly little variation in appearance for a group that contains around 500 species in two subfamilies (Gasteruptiinae and Hyptiogastrinae) and with 9 genera worldwide.
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Halictidae
The Halictidae is the second largest family of Apoidea bees.
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Heloridae
Heloridae is a family of wasps in the order Hymenoptera.
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Hemiptera
The Hemiptera or true bugs are an order of insects comprising some 50,000 to 80,000 species of groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, and shield bugs.
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Heterogyna
Heterogynaidae is a minor family (only eight described species in a single genus, Heterogyna) of small spheciform wasps occurring in Madagascar, Botswana, Turkmenistan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the Eastern Mediterranean area.
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Honey bee
A honey bee (or honeybee) is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax.
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Hornet
Hornets (insects in the genera Vespa and Provespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to their close relatives yellowjackets.
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Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
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Hyperparasite
A hyperparasite is a parasite whose host, often an insect, is also a parasite, often specifically a parasitoid.
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Ibaliidae
The Ibaliidae are a small family of hymenopteran superfamily Cynipoidea.
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Ichneumonidae
The Ichneumonidae are a parasitoid wasp family within the order Hymenoptera.
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Ichneumonoidea
The superfamily Ichneumonoidea contains the two largest families within Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae and Braconidae.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Leucospidae
The Leucospidae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Leucospididae) are a specialized group within the Chalcidoidea, composed exclusively of ectoparasitoids of aculeate wasps or bees.
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Liopteridae
Liopteridae is a family of wood-boring parasitoid wasps.
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Maaminga
Maaminga is a genus of parasitic wasps containing two species and constituting the family Maamingidae.
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Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees whose pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families).
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Megalyridae
Megalyroidea is a small hymenopteran superfamily that includes a single family, Megalyridae, with eight genera (plus three extinct ones) and 49 described species.
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Megaspilidae
The Megaspilidae are a small hymenopteran family with 13 genera in two subfamilies, and some 450 known species, with a great many species still undescribed.
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Melittidae
Melittidae is a small bee family, with over 200 described speciesMichez D. (2008). Proc.
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Mesosoma
The mesosoma is the middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma.
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
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Metasoma
The metasoma is the posterior part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the mesosoma.
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Monophyly
In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.
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Mutillidae
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 3,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.
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Mymarommatidae
The Mymarommatidae are a very small family of microscopic hymenopteran insects.
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Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.
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Order (biology)
In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.
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Ormyridae
The Ormyridae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Orussidae
The Orussidae or the parasitic wood wasps represent a small family of sawflies ("Symphyta").
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Ovipositor
The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs.
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Paper wasp
Paper wasps are vespid wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct water-resistant nests made of gray or brown papery material.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Parasitica
Parasitica (the parasitican wasps) is an obsolete, paraphyletic infraorder of Apocrita containing the parasitoid wasps.
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Parasitoid
A parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host and at the host's expense, and which sooner or later kills it.
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Parasitoid wasp
Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita.
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Pelecinus
The genus Pelecinus is the only living member of the family Pelecinidae (there are also two fossil genera), and contains only three species, restricted to the New World.
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Pemphredoninae
The subfamilly Pemphredoninae also known as the aphid wasps, is a large group in the wasp family Crabronidae, with over 1000 species.
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Perilampidae
The Perilampidae are a small family within the Chalcidoidea, composed mostly of hyperparasitoids.
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Petiole (insect anatomy)
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and wasps in the order Apocrita.
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Philanthinae
The subfamilly Philanthinae is one of the largest groups in the wasp family Crabronidae, with about 1100 species in 9 genera, most of them in Cerceris; Alexander treats it as having only 8 genera.
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.
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Platygastridae
The hymenopteran family Platygastridae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Platygasteridae) is a large group (over 1100 species) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly very small (1–2 mm), black, and shining, with elbowed antennae that have an eight-segmented flagellum.
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Platygastroidea
The Hymenopteran superfamily of parasitoid wasps, Platygastroidea, has often been treated as a lineage within the superfamily Proctotrupoidea, but most classifications since 1977 have recognized it as an independent group.
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Plectroctena
''P. mandibularis'' Plectroctena is a Afrotropical genus of ants, with most species occurring in the rainforest zones of West and Central Africa.
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Pollen
Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells).
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Pollen wasp
Pollen wasps, the Masarinae, are unusual wasps that are typically treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but have in the past sometimes been recognized as a separate family, "Masaridae", which also included the subfamily Euparagiinae.
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Potter wasp
Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.
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Proctotrupidae
Proctotrupidae is a family of wasps in the superfamily Proctotrupoidea of the order Hymenoptera.
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Proctotrupoidea
Proctotrupoidea is a Hymenopteran superfamily containing seven extant families, though others have been recognized in the past.
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Propodeum
The propodeum or propodium is the first abdominal segment in Apocrita Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants).
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Pteromalidae
The Pteromalidae are a very large family of mostly parasitoid wasps, with some 3,450 described species in about 640 genera (the number was greater, but many species and genera have been reduced to synonymy in recent years).
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Rhopalosomatidae
The Rhopalosomatidae are a family of Hymenoptera containing about 68 extant species in four genera that are found worldwide.
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Rotoitidae
The Rotoitidae are a very small family of rare, relictual parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Sapygidae
The Sapygidae are a family of solitary aculeate wasps.
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Sawfly
Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera alongside ants, bees and wasps.
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Scelionidae
The hymenopteran family Scelionidae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species in some 160 genera) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly small (0.5–10 mm), often black, often highly sculptured, with (typically) elbowed antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum.
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Sclerogibbidae
The Sclerogibbidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea.
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Scolebythidae
The Scolebythidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea.
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Scoliidae
The Scoliidae, the scoliid wasps, are a family of about 560 species found worldwide.
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Sierolomorphidae
The Sierolomorphidae are a family of about 10 known species of wasps, all in the genus Sierolomorpha, found in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Signiphoridae
Signiphoridae (historically also known as Thysanidae) is a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Sphecidae
The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps.
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Spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps or pompilid wasps.
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Stenotritidae
The Stenotritidae is the smallest of all formally recognized bee families, with only 21 species in two genera, all of them restricted to Australia.
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Stephanidae
The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps placed in the superfamily Stephanoidea, which has at least 345 living species in 11 genera.
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Stinger
A stinger, or sting, is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.
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Stingless bee
Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 500 species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors).
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Tanaostigmatidae
The Tanaostigmatidae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Tetracampidae
The Tetracampidae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
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Tiphiidae
The Tiphiidae (also known as the tiphiid wasps) are a family of large solitary wasps whose larvae are parasitoids of various beetle larvae, especially those in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.
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Torymidae
The Torymidae are a family of wasps that consists of attractive metallic species with enlarged hind legs, and generally with long ovipositors in the females.
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Trichogrammatidae
The Trichogrammatidae are a family of tiny wasps in the Chalcidoidea that include some of the smallest of all insects, with most species having adults less than 1 mm in length.
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Trigonalidae
The Trigonalidae (sometimes spelled Trigonalyidae but the former spelling has formal precedence) are one of the more unusual families of hymenopteran insects, of indeterminate affinity within the suborder Apocrita (though sometimes believed to be related to the Evanioidea), and presently placed in its own superfamily, Trigonaloidea.
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Vanhorniidae
Vanhorniidae is a family of ants, bees, wasps and sawflies in the order Hymenoptera.
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Venom
Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.
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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.
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Vespoidea
The Vespoidea are a superfamily of wasps in the order Hymenoptera, although older taxonomic schemes may vary in this categorization, particularly in their recognition of a now-obsolete superfamily Scolioidea, as well as the relationship to ants.
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Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.
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Weevil
A weevil is a type of beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily.
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Yellowjacket
Yellowjacket or Yellowjacket is the common name in North America for predatory social wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula.
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Apocritan, Apocritans, Proctotrupomorpha.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrita