WaspsWasps Index Australian Large Wasps Australian Mud Nest Wasps Mud Wasp Velvet Ants Abispa ephippium Acarozumia amaliae Aulacidae Australodynerus Bembix Bembicinae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Braconidae Chrysididae Cryptocheilus bicolor (Orange Spider Wasp) Delta latreillei (Potter Wasp) Eumeninae Ferreola handschini (Orange-collared Spider Wasp) Flower Wasps Gasteruptiid Wasp Hairy Flower Wasps Isodontia (Grass-carrying Wasp) Lissopimpla excelsa (Orchid Dupe Wasp) Mutillidae Paralastor sp. Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Radumeris radula (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Sceliphron laetum Thynnid Wasps Tiphiidae Yellow and Black Wasp
Commonly known as the Aulacid Wasps, the family Aulacidae are a small, cosmopolitan family of wasps, with three recognised genera (Aulacus, Panaulix and Pristaulacus), currently with some 200 plus known species.
They are primarily endoparasitoids (a parasite that lives inside another animal and ultimately killing it), their host being wood wasps (Xiphydriidae). and xylophagous (wood boring/feeding) beetles (Cerambycidae and Buprestidae).
The Aulacidae are closely related to the family Gasteruptiidae, sharing the feature of having the first and second metasomal tergites fused, and having the head on a long pronotal “neck”, though they are not nearly as slender and elongate as gasteruptiids, nor are their hind legs club-like, and they have more sculptured thoraces. They share the evanioid trait of having the metasoma attached very high above the hind coxae on the propodeum.3
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Evanioidea
- Family: Aulacidae
Footnote & References
- Aulacidae, Kallangur, SE QLD © Michael Cawdrey
- Bee Aware of Your Native Bees (Australia) / Australian Polistinae and other Hymenoptera, Facebook groups, www.facebook.com/groups/beeawareofyournativebees / www.facebook.com/groups/188453645581988
- Aulacidae, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/173c490f-a25b-494c-acbc-48606bf01fa1
- Aulacid Wasps (Family Aulacidae), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/145378-Aulacidae
- Aulacidae, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulacidae
WaspsWasps Index Australian Large Wasps Australian Mud Nest Wasps Mud Wasp Velvet Ants Abispa ephippium Acarozumia amaliae Aulacidae Australodynerus Bembix Bembicinae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Braconidae Chrysididae Cryptocheilus bicolor (Orange Spider Wasp) Delta latreillei (Potter Wasp) Eumeninae Ferreola handschini (Orange-collared Spider Wasp) Flower Wasps Gasteruptiid Wasp Hairy Flower Wasps Isodontia (Grass-carrying Wasp) Lissopimpla excelsa (Orchid Dupe Wasp) Mutillidae Paralastor sp. Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Radumeris radula (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Sceliphron laetum Thynnid Wasps Tiphiidae Yellow and Black Wasp
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