Euparagia
Euparagia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Vespidae |
Subfamily: | Euparagiinae |
Genus: | Euparagia Cresson, 1879 |
Type species | |
Euparagia scutellaris Cresson, 1879[1]
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Species | |
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Euparagia is a genus of wasps in the family Vespidae, the only extant genus in the subfamily Euparagiinae.
Species[]
The following species are classified within the genus Euparagia:
- Bohart, 1948
- Bohart, 1948
- (Cameron, 1904)
- Bohart, 1938
- Bohart & Krombein 1979
- Euparagia scutellaris Cresson, 1879
- Bohart, 1988
- Bohart, 1948
- & Kimsey, 1988
- Bohart, 1988
Biology[]
Euparagia wasps are little known and the biology of only one species, Euparagia scutellaris, is known, and the females provision nests in the soil with weevil larvae.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b James M. Carpenter and Lynn S. Kimsey (2009). "The Genus Euparagia Cresson, 1879 (Hymenoptera: Vespinae; Euparagiinae)". American Museum Novitates. 3643: 1–11.
Categories:
- Vespidae
- Taxa named by Ezra Townsend Cresson