Symmorphus

Symmorphus is a primarily holarctic genus of potter wasps.[3]

Symmorphus
Symmorphus gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Symmorphus
Wesmael, 1836[1]
Type species
Symmorphus gracilis
(Brullé 1832) originally Odynerus elegans Westmael, 1833[1][2]
Species

See text

Species
  • Symmorphus albomarginatus
  • Symmorphus alkimus
  • Symmorphus allobrogus
  • Symmorphus ambotretus
  • Symmorphus angustatus
  • Symmorphus apiciornatus
  • Symmorphus aurantiopictus
  • Symmorphus bifasciatus
  • Symmorphus canadensis
  • Symmorphus canlaonicus
  • Symmorphus captivus
  • Symmorphus carinatus
  • Symmorphus cliens
  • Symmorphus connexus
  • Symmorphus crassicornis
  • Symmorphus cristatus
  • Symmorphus debilitatus
  • Symmorphus decens
  • Symmorphus declivis
  • Symmorphus foveolatus
  • Symmorphus fuscipes
  • Symmorphus glasunowi
  • Symmorphus gracilis
  • Symmorphus hoozanensis
  • Symmorphus iwatai
  • Symmorphus lucens
  • Symmorphus mizuhonis
  • Symmorphus momunganensis
  • Symmorphus murarius
  • Symmorphus negrosensis
  • Symmorphus nipteroides
  • Symmorphus ornatus
  • Symmorphus paralleliventris
  • Symmorphus parvilineatus
  • Symmorphus projectus
  • Symmorphus sichuanensis
  • Symmorphus sublaevis
  • Symmorphus tsushimanus
  • Symmorphus tukvarensis
  • Symmorphus violaceipennis
  • Symmorphus yananensis
  • Symmorphus yunnanensis

Distribution

Species within this genus are present in most of Europe, in East Palearctic realm, in the Near East and in the Oriental realm.[4]

Description

These mall solitary wasp can reach a length of about 1 centimetre (0.39 in). They nest in pre-existing cavities (twigs, stems, galls, old nests of other Hymenoptera, hollows in the wood). Partitions between cells are made of mud. Adult females prey on caterpillars and larvae of beetles to lay eggs in them.[5]

Bibliography
  • Carpenter, J. M. 1986. A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, 93: 61–90.
  • Сumming J. M. 1989. Classification and evolution of the eumenine wasp genus Symmorphus. (Hymenoptera:Vespidae)// Mem. Entom.Soc. Canada. 1989. N 148. P. 1—168.

References
  1. James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche. 93: 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. "Symmorphus (Symmorphus) gracilis (Brullé 1832)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  3. Biolib
  4. Fauna europaea
  5. Discover life


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