Sting microsculpture in the digger wasp Bembix rostrata (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

The sting microsculpture of the digger wasp Bembix rostrata (Fabricius, 1781) (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) is studied with the scanning electron microscope (SEM) for the first time. As in many other hymenopterans, the second valvifer of B. rostrata possesses two fields of styloconic sensilla (hair pla...

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Main Author: Natalia Matushkina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2011-03-01
Series:Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Online Access:http://jhr.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=1566