Sapyga louisi

Sapyga louisi is a species of a club-horned wasp in the family – Sapygidae.[1] Adults feed from flowers and the larvae are kleptoparasites of leaf cutter bee larvae, including those of Heriades carinata.[2]

Sapyga louisi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sapygidae
Genus: Sapyga
Species:
S. louisi
Binomial name
Sapyga louisi
Krombein, 1938

Description and identification

S. louisi is distinguished from its allies by its small size and by the yellow body markings it has. The inner orbits are marked from the mandibles to nearly the upper margin of the eye. The thorax is marked with a narrow band at the anterior margin that is narrowly interrupted as well as the lateral spots behind on the pronotum, a pair of spots on the scutellum, and a band on the post-scutellum. The propodeum has a pair of spots – one on each side. The abdomen is marked with a broad band of uniform thickness on the second segment and lateral spots on the following segments - each narrowing medially. The sternites are marked with lateral spots on segments 2–4. The male differs from the female in aspects of having reduced yellow markings, lacking the spots on the lateral margins of the pronotum, the scutellum, and sternites 3 and 4.[3]

References
  1. "Sapyga louisi Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  2. Matthews, Robert Wendell (1965). "The biology of Heriades carinata Cresson (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)". Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 1 (3): 1–33.
  3. Krombein, Karl V. (1938). "Descriptions of four new wasps (Hymenoptera: Sapygidae, Sphecidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 31 (4): 467–470. doi:10.1093/aesa/31.4.467.

Further reading
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 1668: 521–548. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.25.
  • Sharkey, M.J.; Carpenter, J.M.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2012). "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera". Cladistics. 28(1): 80-112.


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