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Mating pair. Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.Their common name velvet ant refers to their resemblance to an ant, and their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold.
Apteropanorpidae is a family of wingless scorpionflies containing a single genus, Apteropanorpa, with four named species, which are all endemic to the Australian island of Tasmania. Of the four known species, three occupy alpine habitats while A. warra occupies lower elevations. [1] Mature individuals inhabit vegetation. [1]
The blue ant (Diamma bicolor), also known as the blue-ant or bluebottle, is a species of flower wasp in the family Thynnidae. [1] It is the sole member of the genus Diamma and of the subfamily Diamminae. Despite its common name and wingless body, it is not an ant but rather a species of large, solitary, parasitic wasp. [2]
This colour scheme is shared by several other Australian scoliids. The setae of A. soror are entirely black, and the second sternite is non-tuberculate. [3] As a member of Austroscolia, the wings have a single recurrent vein and three submarginal cells. [4] Distinguishing this species requires close and thorough inspection of specimens.
The parasitoid wasps include some very large groups, some estimates giving the Chalcidoidea as many as 500,000 species, the Ichneumonidae 100,000 species, and the Braconidae up to 50,000 species. Host insects have evolved a range of defences against parasitoid wasps, including hiding, wriggling, and camouflage markings.
Many species in this group have males (or both males and females) that are apterous (wingless), or brachypterous (very small wings). However, even fully winged Chalcidoid wasps have reduced wing venation when compared to larger wasps that are more frequently observed (e.g. Aculeata, Ichneumonoidea and Symphyta). At most, the forewing venation ...
In species where both sexes are winged, males are similar in size to the females, but are much more slender. The males of species with wingless females, however, are often much larger than the females and have wings; the adults mate in the air, with the female carried by the male's genitalia.
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.