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CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPEGOIDEA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William H. Ashmead
William H. Ashmead
Affiliation:
Assistant Curator, Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum.
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In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for March, 1899. I separated the Hymenoptera into ten superfamilies, viz.: I Apoidea, II. Sphegoidea, III. Vespoidea, IV. Formicoidea, V. Proctotrypoidea, VI. Cynipoidea, VII Chalcidoidea, VIII. Ichneumonoidea, IX. Siricoidea, and X. Tenthredinoidea.

In the following pages I now propose to give a classification of the second of these superfamilies, or the Sphegoidea, a large group of wasps at one time confused with the genuine fossorial wasps, but which may be readily separated from them by having the hind angles of the pronotum not extending back to the tegulæ. Of all wasps these are the ones most closely allied to the bees.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , June 1899 , pp. 145 - 155
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1899

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