cuckoo wasps
emerald wasps
chrysididae latin

It is the third largest genus in the family Chrysididae.

It is the largest genus in the family, including over 1,000 species, as large as the rest of the Chrysididae together.

Psedomalus is a genus of cuckoo wasp (the family Chrysididae).

The cuckoo wasps include the family Chrysididae.

Chrysidea pumila is a species of cuckoo wasps belonging to the family Chrysididae.

Family Chrysididae - Cuckoo Wasps at Bugguide, images and information.

Family Chrysididae (cuckoo wasps)

Members of the family Chrysididae, the cuckoo wasps, are kleptoparasites and lay their eggs in the nests of unrelated host species.

Chrysidini is a very large tribe of cuckoo wasps (the family Chrysididae); this tribe contains more than half of all chrysidid species.

Kleptoparasitism in insects is not restricted to bees; several lineages of wasp including most of the Chrysididae, the cuckoo wasps, are kleptoparasites.

An exception is the family Chrysididae, members of the Hymenoptera, in which species such as Chrysis ignita have reduced stinging apparatus and a functional ovipositor.

Die Goldwespen Nordafrikas (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) Text German.

There are three large, common families (Bethylidae, Chrysididae, and Dryinidae) and four small, rare families (Embolemidae, Plumariidae, Sclerogibbidae, and Scolebythidae).

The vast diversity of the cuckoo wasp family, Chrysididae, includes thousands of species, which have individually adapted to their environment and evolved tools uniquely suited to their survival and parasitic activity.

Brood parasitism, met within the Chrysididae, Mutillidae, robber bees, parasitic bees and in certain Meloid beetles, refers to the smuggling of the eggs into the brood nest of another insect.

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.

William Elford Leach founded the orders Phasmida, Anoplura, Thysanura and Rhaphidides; the hemipterous families Pentatomidae, Coreidae, Belostomidae; the dipterous family Tipulidae and the hymenopterous family Chrysididae and published the first bibliography of entomology in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia.