Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones.
3 branches of this order, most-observed first
Narrow-waisted Wasps, Ants, and Bees
suborderApocrita
Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps
suborderSymphyta
Celliformidae
familyCelliformidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Hymenoptera in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47201.