Definition of Sphecoidea

1. Noun. Families Sphecidae and Stizidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphecoidea

Sphacelotheca reiliana
Sphaeralcea
Sphaeralcea coccinea
Sphaeralcea fasciculata
Sphaeralcea remota
Sphaeriaceae
Sphaerobolaceae
Sphaerocarpaceae
Sphaerocarpales
Sphaerocarpos
Sphaerocarpus
Sphagnales
Sphecidae
Sphecius
Sphecius speciosis
Sphecoidea (current term)
Sphecotheres
Spheniscidae
Sphenisciformes
Spheniscus
Spheniscus demersus
Sphenodon punctatum
Sphenopsida
Sphingian
Sphingidae
Sphinx
Sphynx
Sphyraena
Sphyraena barracuda
Sphyraenidae

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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