Tracheliodes hicksi

Tracheliodes hicksi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Sand wasp
Subfamily:	Crabroninae
Gender:	Tracheliodes
View:	Tracheliodes hicksi
Latin name
	Tracheliodes hicksi Sandhouse, 1936

Tracheliodes hicksi (lat.) - genus of sand wasps of the genus Tracheliodes from the subfamily Crabroninae (tribe Crabronini ). Mexico and the USA ( Arizona , Colorado ). They hunt ants from the subfamily dolichoderins ^[1] .

Content

Description

Small wasps (about 1 cm), black with reddish marks. Clypeus with 5 teeth. Crown and shield with reticulated microsculpture, matte. The mandibular palps are 6-segmented. Labial palps 3-segmented. The sides of the mesothorax with epicnemial keel. The antennae of females are 12-segmented (males consist of 13 segments). The inner edges of the eyes are subparallel (without a notch). The abdomen is sedentary (the first sternite of the abdomen is completely under tergite). Fore wing with one discoidal and three radio-medial cells ^[1] ^[2] .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Nemkov P.G., Cazenas V.L. , Budris E.R., Antropov A.V. 1995. Sem. Sphecidae - Digging wasps // Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. IV. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. Part 1 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - SPb. : Nauka, 1995 .-- S. 368–480. - 606 s. - 3150 copies. - ISBN 5-02-025944-6 .
↑ Nemkov, Pavel Gennadievich. Overview of the Holarctic burrowing sieges of the Tracheliodes sow (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Crabroninae) with a description of two new species from the Far East of the USSR (Russian) // Systematics of insects and ticks (Proceedings of VEO . Volume 70): Journal. - L .: Nauka, 1988 .-- pp . 116-124 .

Literature

Nemkov P.G., Cazenas V.L. , Budris E.R., Antropov A.V. 1995. Sem. Sphecidae - Digging wasps // Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. IV. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. Part 1 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - SPb. : Nauka, 1995 .-- S. 368–480. - 606 s. - 3150 copies. - ISBN 5-02-025944-6 .
Nemkov P.G. An annotated catalog of burrowing wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabronidae) of the Asian part of Russia. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2009 .-- 194 p.
Bohart, RM & Menke, AS Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. - Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1976 .. - 695 p.

Links

[Немков1995-1] ¹ ² Nemkov P.G., Cazenas V.L. , Budris E.R., Antropov A.V. 1995. Sem. Sphecidae - Digging wasps // Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. IV. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. Part 1 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - SPb. : Nauka, 1995 .-- S. 368–480. - 606 s. - 3150 copies. - ISBN 5-02-025944-6 .

[nemkov1988-2] Nemkov, Pavel Gennadievich. Overview of the Holarctic burrowing sieges of the Tracheliodes sow (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Crabroninae) with a description of two new species from the Far East of the USSR (Russian) // Systematics of insects and ticks (Proceedings of VEO . Volume 70): Journal. - L .: Nauka, 1988 .-- pp . 116-124 .