The Bethylidae are a family of aculeate wasps, in the superfamily Chrysidoidea, commonly known as Bethylid Wasps or Flat Wasps. Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasp.
This family of wasps, ranges between parasitoid wasps and hunting wasps. Like most of the Chrysidoidea, the genus Bethylidae are stinging Hymenoptera, most being parasitoids. Some of them, however, have developed their parasitoidal biology along predatory lines and they sting and malaxate their victims into paralysis. Then they hide the prey and lay their eggs on them.
Bethylid Wasp, in the family Bethylidae (superfamily Chrysidoidea). Like most of the Chrysidoidea, the Bethylidae are stinging Hymenoptera, most of them are parasitoids.
The Bethylidae are a family of aculeate wasps (aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps).
More information on this group of wasps:
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Chrysidoidea
- Family: Bethylidae
- Subfamily:
- Bethylinae
- Epyrinae
- Mesitiinae
- Pristocerinae
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Infraorder: Aculeata
- Superfamily:
- Apoidea
- Chrysidoidea
- Dryinoidea
- Formicoidea
- Pompiloidea
- Scolioidea
- Sierolomorphoidea
- Thynnoidea
- Tiphioidea
- Vespoidea
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Ken Walker for ID, member of Australian Polistinae and other Hymenoptera, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/188453645581988/
- Bethylidae, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/BETHYLIDAE
- Flat Wasps (Family Bethylidae), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/203283-Bethylidae
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