🦋 Family

Sphecidae

30 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hymenoptera › Sphecidae

Chalybion californicum, the North American common blue mud dauber, is a non-aggressive metallic blue mud dauber wasp.

Zimmermann's mud wasp (Chalybion zimmermanni) is a thread-waisted wasp species in the family Sphecidae.

Chalybion bengalense is a metallic blue wasp species with a described size range, native to parts of Asia-Oceania and introduced to other regions.

Podium rufipes is a species of thread-waisted wasp in Sphecidae that provisions its young with paralyzed cockroach nymphs.

Podium luctuosum is a thread-waisted wasp species that uses Parcoblatta as prey for its larvae.

The steel-blue cricket hunter (Chlorion aerarium) is a thread-waisted wasp in Sphecidae, similar to overlapping-range Chalybion californicum.

Related Families

Formicidae 366 species Apidae 239 species Megachilidae 95 species Eumenidae 71 species Vespidae 67 species Andrenidae 59 species Crabronidae 57 species Halictidae 45 species

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