Ammoplanus

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Ammoplanus
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)
Superfamily : Apoidea
without rank: Digger wasps (Spheciformes)
Family : Crabronidae
Genre : Ammoplanus
Scientific name
Ammoplanus
Giraud , 1869

Ammoplanus is a genus of digger wasps (Spheciformes) from the Crabronidae family. 41 species are known worldwide, 28 of whichoccurin the Palearctic and 19 are also common in Europe. There are three types in Central Europe.

features

The very small, black animals do not have an abdomen stalk. The forewings have only one submarginal cell. As with the similar genera Stigmus and Spilomena , the wing mark is very large and longer than the short marginal cell.

Way of life

The females build their nests in walls of clay and loess. The brood is supplied with fringed winged winged birds (Thysanoptera), which are not killed by a sting, but by pressure with the mandibles , as is the case with the genus Spilomena and some other aphid hunters .

Species (Europe)

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Manfred Blösch: The digger wasps in Germany: way of life, behavior, distribution . 1st edition. Goecke & Evers, 2000, ISBN 3-931374-26-2 , pp. 206 .
  2. Ammoplanus. Fauna Europaea, accessed July 23, 2010 .

literature

  • Manfred Blösch: The digger wasps in Germany: way of life, behavior, distribution . 1st edition. Goecke & Evers, 2000, ISBN 3-931374-26-2 .