Xanthocampsomeris
Genus of wasps
Xanthocampsomeris | |
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Xanthocampsomeris limosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Scoliidae |
Tribe: | Campsomerini |
Genus: | Xanthocampsomeris Bradley, 1957 |
Xanthocampsomeris is a New World genus of the family Scoliidae, also known as the scoliid wasps, formerly treated as a subgenus within Campsomeris.
Description and identification
Xanthocampsomeris are small to medium wasps with dark bodies with the abdomen having yellow markings on 3 or 4 tergites and red at the apex. The legs are reddish with white hind tibial spurs. The wings are subhyaline with yellow venation.[1]
Distribution
Species of this genus are found in the West Indies and from the southern United States south to Colombia.[1]
Species
There are 5 species of Xanthocampsomeris:[2][3]
- Xanthocampsomeris completa (Rohwer, 1927)
- Xanthocampsomeris completa completa (Rohwer, 1927)
- Xanthocampsomeris completa yucatanensis (Bradley , 1964 )
- Xanthocampsomeris fulvohirta (Cresson, 1865)
- Xanthocampsomeris hesterae (Rohwer, 1927)
- Xanthocampsomeris limosa (Burmeister, 1853)
- Xanthocampsomeris tricincta (Fabricius, 1775)
Gallery
- X. completa completa female photographed in Nuevo León, Mexico.
- X. fulvohirta female photographed in Florida.
- X. hesterae male photographed in Guatemala.
- X. limosa female photographed in Mexico City, Mexico.
- X. tricincta female collected in the Dominican Republic
References
- ^ a b Bradley, James Chester (1957). "The Taxa of Campsomeris (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) Occurring in the New World". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 83 (2): 65–77. JSTOR 25077743.
- ^ Osten, T. (2005). "Checkliste der Dolchwespen der Welt (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Scoliidae). Teil 1: Proscoliinae und Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Teil 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Teil 3: Literatur" [Checklist of the Scoliidae of the World. Part 1: Proscoliinae and Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Part 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Part 3: Literature] (PDF). Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Augsburg (in German). 62 (220–221): 1–62. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ^ "Classification and checklist of Afrotropical mammoth wasps". Retrieved 2019-07-18.
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