Author | Yeo, P.F., & Corbet, S.A. |
Year | 1995 |
Title | Solitary Wasps |
ISBN | 0 85546 295 7 |
Series | Naturalists’ Handbooks |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the genera and almost all the species known in Britain at the time. |
Source | Naturalists’ Handbooks, 3, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
Illustrations | Line drawings beside text plus four colour plates of paintings and four half-tone in the middle. |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A handy little guide to the solitary wasps. It offers a diagrammatic "Quick Check Key" for living specimens, plus a diagrammatic family key followed by well-illustrated dichotomous keys to species. |
Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Key VII, page 48, couplet 6: *Trypoxylon minus* and *T. figulus* (with their measurements) are the wrong way around. |
Examine | with x8 or x10 hand lens ( Stereo Microscope is also useful) |
Specimen Preparation | Approximate identification of living specimens, more accurate identification of anaesthetised or dead specimens |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | SPHECOIDEA | a superfamily of solitary wasps | Animalia: Hymenoptera |
For identification | Current | MUTILLIDAE | velvet ants | Animalia: Hymenoptera |
For identification | Current | SAPYGIDAE | a family of solitary wasps | Animalia: Hymenoptera |
For identification | Current | TIPHIIDAE | a family of solitary wasps | Animalia: Hymenoptera |
For identification | Current | VESPIDAE | potter, mason and social wasps | Animalia: Hymenoptera |
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