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Wonderful World of Wasps

Exhibition Iziko South African Museum

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

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The Gall wasps (Family Cynipidae) are a group of 1200 described species of plant feeding insects centred in the Northern Hemisphere. They either form galls on plants (Oak gall wasps are the best known), or develop in the galls formed by other wasps or more rarely midges.

Photographs © Simon van Noort


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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