Vespoidea, the Glossary
Vespoidea is a superfamily of wasps in the order Hymenoptera.[1]
Table of Contents
40 relations: Aculeata, Ant, Armaniinae, Bradynobaenidae, Chyphotidae, Dolichovespula maculata, Eusociality, Hornet, Hymenoptera, Incertae sedis, Mutillidae, Myrmosidae, Nuclear gene, Order (biology), Paper wasp, Paraphyly, Pompiloidea, Potter wasp, Prothorax, Rhodopsin, Rhopalosomatidae, Ribosomal RNA, Sapygidae, Scoliidae, Sensu, Sexual dimorphism, Sierolomorphidae, Sister group, Sphecomyrminae, Spider wasp, Stinger, Taxonomy, Tegula (insect anatomy), Thynnidae, Thynnoidea, Tiphiidae, Tiphioidea, Vespidae, Wasp, Yellowjacket.
- Apocrita superfamilies
Aculeata
Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps.
Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
Armaniinae
Armaniinae is subfamily of extinct ant-like hymenopterans known from a series of Cretaceous fossils found in Asia and Africa.
Bradynobaenidae
The Bradynobaenidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum.
See Vespoidea and Bradynobaenidae
Chyphotidae
The Chyphotidae are a family of wasps with wingless females similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum.
Dolichovespula maculata
Dolichovespula maculata is a species of wasp in the genus Dolichovespula and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae.
See Vespoidea and Dolichovespula maculata
Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.
Hornet
Hornets (insects in the genus Vespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to yellowjackets, their close relatives.
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
Incertae sedis
of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
See Vespoidea and Incertae sedis
Mutillidae
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.
Myrmosidae
The Myrmosidae are a small family of wasps very similar to the Mutillidae.
Nuclear gene
A nuclear gene is a gene that has its DNA nucleotide sequence physically situated within the cell nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
See Vespoidea and Nuclear gene
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Vespoidea and Order (biology)
Paper wasp
Paper wasps are a type of vespid wasps.
Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
Pompiloidea
Pompiloidea is a superfamily that includes spider wasps and velvet ants, among others, in the order Hymenoptera. Vespoidea and Pompiloidea are Apocrita superfamilies.
Potter wasp
Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.
Prothorax
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs.
Rhodopsin
Rhodopsin, also known as visual purple, is a protein encoded by the RHO gene and a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR).
Rhopalosomatidae
Rhopalosomatidae is a family of Hymenoptera containing about 68 extant species in four genera that are found worldwide.
See Vespoidea and Rhopalosomatidae
Ribosomal RNA
Ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) is a type of non-coding RNA which is the primary component of ribosomes, essential to all cells.
See Vespoidea and Ribosomal RNA
Sapygidae
The Sapygidae are a family of solitary kleptoparasitic aculeate wasps.
Scoliidae
The Scoliidae, the scoliid wasps, are a family of wasps comprising about 560 species worldwide.
Sensu
Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
See Vespoidea and Sexual dimorphism
Sierolomorphidae
The Sierolomorphidae are a family of 13 extant species of wasps, in the genera Sierolomorpha and Proscleroderma, mostly found in the Northern Hemisphere.
See Vespoidea and Sierolomorphidae
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
See Vespoidea and Sister group
Sphecomyrminae
Sphecomyrminae is an extinct subfamily of ants in family Formicidae known from a series of Cretaceous fossils found in North America, Europe, and Asia.
See Vespoidea and Sphecomyrminae
Spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps.
Stinger
A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization.
Tegula (insect anatomy)
A tegula is a small sclerite situated above the base of the costal vein in the wings of various insects such as Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Auchenorrhyncha, and attached to the antero-lateral portion of the mesonotum.
See Vespoidea and Tegula (insect anatomy)
Thynnidae
The Thynnidae (also known as thynnid wasps, flower wasps, or thynnid flower wasps) are a family of large, solitary wasps whose larvae are almost universally parasitoids of various beetle larvae, especially those in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.
Thynnoidea
Thynnoidea is a superfamily of hymenopterans in the order Hymenoptera. Vespoidea and Thynnoidea are Apocrita superfamilies.
Tiphiidae
The Tiphiidae (also known as tiphiid wasps, flower wasps, or tiphiid flower wasps) are a family of large, solitary wasps whose larvae are parasitoids of various beetle larvae, especially those in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.
Tiphioidea
Tiphioidea is a suggested superfamily of stinging wasps in the order Hymenoptera. Vespoidea and Tiphioidea are Apocrita superfamilies.
Vespidae
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps.
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.
Yellowjacket
Yellowjacket or yellowjacket is the common name in North America for predatory social wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula.
See Vespoidea and Yellowjacket
See also
Apocrita superfamilies
- Apoidea
- Ceraphronoidea
- Chrysidoidea
- Cynipoidea
- Diaprioidea
- Evanioidea
- Ichneumonoidea
- Mymarommatoidea
- Platygastroidea
- Pompiloidea
- Proctotrupoidea
- Thynnoidea
- Tiphioidea
- Vespoidea