Potter wasp
Solitary wasp folds
The solitary wasps ( Eumeninae ) form a subfamily of wasps ( Vespidae ) in the order of the Hymenoptera. 82 Of the world's 3,000 species live in Central Europe.
Features
As with the rest of the wings of Vespidae animals are folded in the longitudinal rest position. In contrast to the social wasps, so the genuine wasps and the wasp (because of the nesting material known as paper wasps ), the solitary wasps live alone, however, so do not eusozial in an insect colony.
They are called by the preferred nesting material also Lehmwespen. For example, building the genus of potter wasps ( Eumenes ) for their larvae brood cells of clay. Other types excavated cavities in clay or loess walls, in which brood chambers are created. Sometimes a faucet like a bent pipe in front of the nest entrance from which geschafften soil material is grown.
A beautiful way with interesting breeding behavior is the Great Lehmwespe.
System
The subfamily of the solitary wasps subdivided into Europe in 37 genera with about 312 species and subspecies. In Germany so far 67 species have been detected, for example:
- Allodynerus Blüthgen, 1938 Allodynerus delphinalis ( Giraud, 1866)
- Ancistrocerus dusmetiolus ( beach, 1914)
- Ancistrocerus gazella ( Panzer, 1798)
- Ancistrocerus oviventris ( Wesmael, 1836)
- Discoelius zonalis ( Panzer, 1801)
- Euodynerus quadrifasciatus (Fabricius, 1793)
- Gymnomerus laevipes ( Shuckard, 1837)
- Leptochilus alpestris ( Saussure, 1855)
- Microdynerus exilis ( Herrich -Schäffer, 1839)
- Pterocheilus phaleratus ( Panzer, 1797)
- Stenodynerus dentisquama (Thomson, 1870)
- Symmorphus bifasciatus (Linnaeus, 1761 )
- Symmorphus murarius (Linnaeus, 1758)