Hymenoptera

How To Use Hymenoptera In A Sentence

• The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
• The order Strepsiptera are obligate endoparasitic insects that are known to parasitize seven insect orders, including solitary and social Hymenoptera.
• The orders Orthoptera and Hemiptera are particularly numerous; as likewise is the stinging division of the Hymenoptera; the bees, perhaps, being excepted. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
• On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies. HOTHOUSE
• And ants are in the order Hymenoptera, which is the same order as wasps and bees.
• Such social hymenoptera may live together in nests or hives of many thousands of individuals, all descended form a single queen.
• Middle pleural area: in Hymenoptera; the median of the three areas between lateral and pleural carinae: = 2d pleural area. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• Social hymenoptera, for example, will sting an assailant to their hive.
• First submarginal cross-nervure: Hymenoptera; part of the media and the radio-medial cross vein (Comst.). Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• Parapteron - era: small sclerites, articulated to the dorsal extremity of the episternum, just below the wings; absent on prothorax = the tegulae of Hymenoptera, and patagia of Lepidoptera: have been homologized with the elytra of Coleoptera. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology