Sphecid vs Sphecoid - What's the difference?
sphecid | sphecoid |
of or pertaining to the Sphecidae family of wasps
of or pertaining to those wasps formerly classified in the Sphecidae before the discovery that bees belong to that group (now known as the order Apoidea); the members of the current Apoidea that aren't bees, including other families such as the Crabronidae.
Of or pertaining to wasps formerly classified in the superfamily Sphecoidea (corresponding to all wasps in Apoidea), now sometimes treated as the series Spheciformes.
* 1975 , , 2000,
* 1982 , Albert T. Finnamore, The Sphecoidea of Southern Quebec (Hymenoptera) ,
* 2000 , Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World , Volume 1,
As adjectives the difference between sphecid and sphecoid
is that sphecid is of or pertaining to the Sphecidae family of wasps while sphecoid is of or pertaining to wasps formerly classified in the superfamily Sphecoidea (corresponding to all wasps in Apoidea), now sometimes treated as the series Spheciformes.As a noun sphecid
is a wasp in the Sphecidae family.sphecid
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- On morphological grounds they fall closest to the sphecoid' wasps, although the lack of an adequate fossil record has made it impossible to pinpoint the exact ancestral phyletic line. In a word, the Apoidea can be loosely characterized as ' sphecoid wasps that have specialized on collecting pollen instead of insect prey as larval food.
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- The literature pertaining to sphecoid wasps in Quebec may be divided into four broad categories: species surveys, biological studies, taxonomic studies and reference works.
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- Bees are similar to one group of wasps, the sphecoid wasps, but are quite unlike other Aculeata.