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Thread-waisted Wasps
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Thread-waisted Wasps

Sphecidae

The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of parasitoidal wasps that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Sphecinae

subfamilySphecinae

Mud-dauber Wasps and Allies

subfamilySceliphrinae

Ammophilinae

subfamilyAmmophilinae

Chloriontinae

subfamilyChloriontinae

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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 48742.