Hymenoptera Definition

pronoun

A taxonomic order within the superorder Endopterygota — the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants.

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Origin of Hymenoptera

  • From Ancient Greek ὑμενόπτερος (humenopteros, “membrane-winged”), from ὑμήν (humēn, “membrane”) + πτερόν (pteron, “wing”).

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Hymenoptera Sentence Examples

  • The hinder abdominal segments and the stings of the queens and workers resemble those of other stinging Hymenoptera.

  • In some parasitic Hymenoptera there is only a single the proctodaeum respectively.

  • It is interesting and suggestive that in a few families of digging Hymenoptera (such as the Mutillidae), allied to the ants, the females are wingless.

  • Another group of Hymenoptera occasionally causes much harm in fir plantations, namely, the Siricidae or wood-wasps, whose larvae burrow into the trunks of the trees and thus kill them.

  • This has been found to be the case in insects so widely different as Orthoptera and Aculeate Hymenoptera.

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