Orders

Adult Hymenoptera Features

Body Type

8. Hind femora greatly enlarged for grasping...(chalcidid wasps) CHALCIDIDAE
Hind femora not greatly enlarged...9 12. Pronotum extending posteriorly to tegula: may be wingless or hairy and slender.....13
Ponotum not extending posteriorly to tegula: posterior edge of pronotum lobelike; winged: may be hairy and stout-bodied...18 14.Usually covered by conspicuous dense hair...15
Dense hair absent...16 16. Mesopleuron divided with straight transverse suture; hind femora often extend to or beyond tip of abdomen...(spider wasps) POMPILIDAE
Not as above...17 18. With branched and plumose hair present on body...(bees) 20
Without branched and plumose hair.....19 19. Coarsely sculptured; abdomen somewhat hollowed out ventrally.... CHRYSIDIDAE
Sculpturing absent; abdomen not hollowed...(sphecid wasps) SPHECIDAE 20. Thorax usually metallic green....(sweat bees) HALICTIDAE
Thorax not metallic green...21 21. Abdomen with ventral pollen basket (leafcutting bees) MEGACHILIDAE
Abdominal pollen basket absent...22