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Definition of Sphecoidea
1. Noun. Families Sphecidae and Stizidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Hymenoptera, Order Hymenoptera
Member holonyms: Sphecoid, Sphecoid Wasp, Family Sphecidae, Sphecidae, Family Stizidae, Stizidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphecoidea
Literary usage of Sphecoidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"(Super-family Sphecoidea.) To this group belong nearly all of those insects which
are known as the solitary wasps, in contradistinction to the social wasps ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"(Super-family Sphecoidea.) To this group belong nearly all of those insects which
are known as the solitary wasps, in contradistinction to the social wasps ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey Division, North Dakota Geological Survey, Solomon Islands, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1916)
"The wasps grouped together in the superfamily Sphecoidea resemble bees in that
the pronotum is ... The other important work on Sphecoidea is that of WJ Fox. ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)
"The wasps belonging to this superfamily are apparently closely allied to the
wasps in the superfamily Sphecoidea, and have been quite recently classified ..."
5. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1904)
"... of especial value and contain many new species, particularly among the parasitic
families. The new species in the superfamilies Sphecoidea, Vespoidea, ..."
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