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CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William. H. Ashmead
William. H. Ashmead
Affiliation:
Assistant Curator, Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum.
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This family is restricted to the paper-making wasps, all social species living in large communities and having three distinct sexes, female, worker and male, thus agreeing with the social bees, the Apidæ and Bombidæ, and with many ants, Dorylidæ, Myrmicidæ, Formicidæ, etc.

In some species, too, like the ants, there appear to be two forms of the worker.

Deceived by their habits, for structurally they are widely separated, Westwood and Packard thought the social wasps were allied to the Apidæ, and in their scheme of classification have placed them next to the bees, with which they having nothing in common.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 34 , Issue 7 , July 1902 , pp. 163 - 166
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1902

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