BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Yeo, P.F., & Corbet, S.A., 1995

Solitary Wasps

A handy little guide to the solitary wasps. It offers a diagrammatic "Quick Check Key" for living specimens, plus a diagrammatic family key followed by well-illustrated dichotomous keys to species.

Publisher The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Volume 3
ISBN 0 85546 295 7
Comments and Corrigenda Key VII, page 48, couplet 6:
Trypoxylon minus and T. figulus (with their measurements) are the wrong way around.
Coverage All the genera and almost all the species known in Britain at the time.
Illustrations Line drawings beside text plus four colour plates of paintings and four half-tone in the middle.
Identify With x8 or x10 hand lens (also useful to examine under a Stereo Microscope).
Specimen Prep. Approximate identification of living specimens, more accurate identification of anaesthetised or dead specimens.

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

MUTILLIDAE Identification Current
SAPYGIDAE Identification Current
TIPHIIDAE Identification Current
SPHECOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps) Identification Current
EUMENIDAE (potter and mason wasps) Identification Current

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