enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pimpla rufipes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimpla_rufipes

    The species Pimpla rufipes has several synonyms, which include Pimpla hypochondriaca and Pimpla instigator. Pimpla instigator (Fabricius, 1793) has been permanently rejected under the International code of Zoological Nomenclature, since the original name Ichneumon instigator Fabricius, 1793 is a junior homonym of Ichneumon instigator Rossius, 1790, which represents a pimpline species outside ...

  3. Clytus arietis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytus_arietis

    It reaches 9–18 millimetres (0.35–0.71 in) in length. It features prominent yellow and black patterns along its head and abdomen, in what is believed to be an evolutionary attempt to mimic wasps and avoid predation. It also possesses thin legs and antennae that move in small, quick movements, which supports the wasp-mimicking hypothesis.

  4. Cuckoo wasp - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_wasp

    Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, [1] with brilliant metallic colors created by structural coloration. [2]

  5. Pimpla - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimpla

    Pimpla are a worldwide genus of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. Pimpla species are idiobiont endoparasitoids of Holometabola, often the pupae of Lepidoptera. For instance, the common Pimpla rufipes parasitizes Pieris brassicae and Lymantria dispar. They are generally sturdy black wasps with orange markings.

  6. Scelioninae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scelioninae

    Scelioninae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Scelionidae.It is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species in some 160 genera) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly small (0.5–10 mm), often black, often highly sculptured, usually with geniculate (elbowed) antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum.

  7. Scelionidae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scelionidae

    The hymenopteran family Scelionidae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species in some 176 genera) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly small (0.5–10 mm), often black, often highly sculptured, with (typically) elbowed antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum.

  8. Aphelinus mali - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphelinus_mali

    The adult A. mali is a tiny black wasp slightly smaller than its woolly aphid host. Its transparent membranous wings are longer than its abdomen and fold flat along its back. Although it can fly, it prefers to walk and jump, and often conceals itself under leaves.

  9. Fairyfly - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyfly

    Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps, mostly ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in) long. They include the world's smallest known insect , with a body length of only 0.139 mm (0.0055 in), and the smallest known flying insect , only 0.15 mm (0.0059 in) long.