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Tarantula hawk wasp
A solitary tarantula hawk (Pepsis) resting on a flower.
list of ants, bees, and wasps
The order Hymenoptera is the third largest of all insect orders. More than 115,000 species have been described, including ants, bees, ichneumons, chalcids, sawflies, wasps, and lesser-known types. Except for the polar regions, they are abundant in most habitats, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. This is an alphabetically ordered list of significant hymenopterans grouped by suborder.
suborder Apocrita
- ants (family Formicidae)
- bullet ants (Paraponera clavata)
- carpenter ants (genus Camponotus)
- driver ants (genus Dorylus)
- Eciton army ant (Eciton burchellii)
- fire ants (genus Solenopsis)
- harvester ants (multiple genera)
- leafcutter ants (genera Acromyrmex and Atta)
- honey ants (multiple genera)
- Sahara desert ants (genus Cataglyphis)
- weaver ants (genus Oecophylla)
- bees (superfamily Apoidea)
- cuckoo bees (various families)
- leaf-cutter bees (family Megachilidae)
- mason bees (genus Osmia)
- mining bees (family Andrenidae)
- plasterer bees (family Colletidae)
- sweat bees (family Halictidae),
- family Apidae
- bumblebees (genus Bombus)
- carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa)
- euglossine bees (tribe Euglossini)
- honeybees (tribe Apini)
- western honeybee (Apis mellifera)
- Africanized honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata ×A. mellifera)
- stingless bees (tribe Meliponini)
- wasps (several superfamilies)
- braconid wasps (family Braconidae)
- chalcid wasps (superfamily Chalcidoidea)
- fig wasps (family Agaonidae)
- trichogrammatid wasps (family Trichogrammatidae)
- cuckoo wasps (family Chrysididae)
- ensign wasps (family Evaniidae)
- gall wasps (family Cynipidae)
- hornets (genus Vespa)
- Northern giant hornet (V. mandarinia)
- ichneumon wasps (family Ichneumonidae)
- paper wasps (genus Polistes)
- sand wasps (tribe Bembicini)
- spider wasps (family Pompilidae)
- tarantula hawks (genus Pepsis)
- thread-waisted wasps (family Sphecidae)
- cicada-killer wasp (Sphecius speciosus)
- velvet ants (family Mutillidae)
- yellow jackets (genera Dolichovespula or Vespula)
suborder Symphyta
- horntails (family Siricidae)
- sawflies (superfamily Tenthredinoidea)
- wood wasps (families Xiphydriidae, Orussidae, and Anaxyelidae)
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