Spilomena is a genus of aphid wasps in the family Pemphredonidae. The 86 species are found worldwide [2]being represented in the Palearctic (highest number of species), Nearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical, Australasian, and Indomalayan realms.[3]

Spilomena
Spilomena troglodytes depicted in Edward Saunders Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands (figure 1)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pemphredonidae
Subtribe: Spilomenina
Genus: Spilomena
Shuckard, 1838
Synonyms[1]
  • Microglossa Rayment, 1930
  • Microglossella Rayment, 1935
  • Taialia Tsuneki, 1971

Species

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These 88 species belong to the genus Spilomena:

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Spilomena Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  2. ^ Sann, Manuela; Niehuis, Oliver; Peters, Ralph S.; Mayer, Christoph; Kozlov, Alexey; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Bank, Sarah; Meusemann, Karen; Misof, Bernhard; Bleidorn, Christoph; Ohl, Michael (2018). "Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18 (71). doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8. PMC 5960199.
  3. ^ California Academy of Sciences Institute of Biodiversity pdf
  4. ^ "Browse Spilomena". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. ^ "Spilomena". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  6. ^ "Spilomena Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
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