Everything about Sapygidae totally explained
The
Sapygidae are a family of solitary aculeate
wasps. There doesn't seem to be a common English name, but
Club-horned wasps (translating the German name
Keulhornwespen - in reference to the distinctive thickening of the antennae) seems as good a name as any, though various other groups of wasps also have clubbed or thickened antennae. They are generally black wasps, similar in appearance to some
Tiphiidae, with white or yellow markings developed to various degrees.
The female oviposits her eggs into the nests of solitary
bees, and the developing
larvae consume both the host larvae and the supply of food provided for them.
The Sapygidae are a small family with only about 80 species described, and they're not of major economic importance. However some of their host species are important pollinators, and it may sometimes be necessary to control the level of predation on them (Peterson
et al, 1992).
Fossil sapygids have been found in Upper
Eocene Baltic
amber (Brischke, 1886).
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