Dasylabrinae is a subfamily of German Germans ( Velvet ants , Velvet ants) from the family Mutillidae of the order Hymenoptera insects , one of the largest among Germans by the number of species in the world fauna.
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 Dasymutilla | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dasylabrinae Skorikov, 1935 |
Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Biology
- 3 Distribution
- 4 Classification
- 5 Photo Gallery
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Description
Females are wingless, males are winged. Males are usually larger than females. Males have 13-segmented antennae, females - 12-segmented. Males are black or brown, often with rusty red chest sclerites; females are colored brighter, usually with rusty red breasts. The body is in dense black and light hairs, which on the tergite of the abdomen often form a pattern, especially in females.
Biology
German wasps never build their own nests and parasitize in the nests of bees , spheroid and folded-winged wasps , less often other insects ( Diptera , Coleoptera , Lepidoptera , Blattodea flies). A female German wasp sneaks into a strange nest and lays eggs on the host larvae, which their own larvae feed on. Possessing a long sting, the Germans successfully defend themselves from wasps and bees and even inflict stinging on a person (the pain disappears only after a few hours).
Distribution
Prevail in the desert and arid regions of the Ethiopian, Palearctic, Indo-Malayan and Australian zoogeographic regions. More than 100 species from 20 genera are found in the Palearctic (Lelei, 2002). In the fauna of the former USSR there are about 50 species, 4 genera (Lelei, 1985).
Classification
There are about 500 species in the Palearctic (Manley and Pitts 2002), of which over 50 species (29 species in the USSR) are in the largest genus Dasylabris .
- Dasylabrini Skorikov, 1935
- Apteromutilla Ashmead , 1903
- Brachymutilla André, 1901
- Chrestomutilla Brothers, 1971
- Dasylabris Radoszkowski , 1885
- Dasylabroides André, 1901
- Jaxartilla Lelej, 1984
- Jaxartilla fedtshenkoi Lelej, 1984
- Orientilla Lelej, 1979
- Orientilla tausignata (Chen, 1957) (Stenomutilla)
- Orientilla variegata (Smith, 1855) (Mutilla)
- Stenomutilla André, 1896
- Tricholabiodes Radoszkowski , 1885
- Xenomutilla Ashmead, 1903
- and other kinds
Photo Gallery
Literature
- Lelei A.S. ( 1978 ). Above all. Mutillioidea // Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. - Leningrad. Volume 3. Part 1. P. 71-84.
- Lelei A.S. (1985). German wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) fauna of the USSR and neighboring countries. L .: Science. 1985.268 s.
- Lelei A.S. (1995). 63. Sem. Mutillidae - Germans, or mutillids // Identifier of insects of the Russian Far East. - St. Petersburg. Volume 4. Part 1. P. 202-211.
- Lelei A.S. (2002). The catalog of German wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the Palearctic region // Vladivostok, Dalnauka, 2002 .-- 171 p.