BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
VESPOIDEA
(wasps)
Vespoidea
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

VESPOIDEA (wasps)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs
Family EUMENIDAE (potter and mason wasps) 3 6 9 5
Family VESPIDAE (social wasps) 6 107 14 8

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Richards, O.W., 1980 Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 general literature references to VESPOIDEA (wasps)

VESPOIDEA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)		 Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 72 feeding and other relationships of VESPOIDEA (wasps)

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