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Symphyta
- thick waisted, sawflies and horntails
- Cimbicidae
- Diprionidae
- Tenthredinidae
- Siricidae
- Cephidae
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Apocrita
narow waisted , bees and ants
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Ichneumonoidea
- long filiform antennae
- Long exerted ovipositer
- slender, wasplike
- Ichneumonidae
- Braconidae
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Chalicidoidea
- very small
- reduced wing venation
- collar pronotum
- Mymaridae
- Perilampidae
- Pteromalidae
- Chalcididae
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Cynipoidea
- small
- somewhat reduced venation
- gall wasps
- Cynipidae
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Misc. parasitic wasps
- Evaniidae
- Pelecinidae
- Scelionidae
- Chrysididae
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Aculeate (stinging) Hymenoptera
- Formicidae
- Tiphiidae
- Mutillidae
- scoliidae
- Pompilidae
- Vespidae
- Sphecidae
- Colletidae
- Halictidae
- Andrenidae
- Megachilidae
- Apidae
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Cimbicidae
- Large
- clubbed antennae
- 7 segmentes or fewer
- Look like Mydas flies
- Others somewhat blue-green
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Diprionidae
- Very thick bodied
- 13 segmented antennae
- lots of wing venation
- some brown, some black and white
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Tenthredinidae
- 9 segmented antennae (always more than 7)
- black
- Looks like gnat
- legs rear back like a grasshopper
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Siricidae
- Big
- Collar pronotum
- Spearlike plate on last abdominal tergum. (Can opener)
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Cephidae
- elongated pronotum
- compressed abdomen
- very small head
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Ichneumonidae
- 2 recurrent veins in the forewing
- areolet present in forewing
- long ovipositer (females)
- arched abdomen
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Braconidae
- only 1 or no recurrent vein
- small
- not as narrow waisted
- black or brown
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Mymaridae
- very small (microscopic)
- distinct sutures on front of head
- hindwings with fringed hairs
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Perilampidae
- pitted thorax
- short triangular gaster
- thick head, no neck
- golfball thorax
- metallic blue-green
- narrow waist, bulbous gaster
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Pteromalidae
- small
- 5 segmented tarsi
- narrowing pronotum anteriorly
- upturned abdomen
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Chalicidae
- hindcoxae large and expanded
- big bulboush hind legs
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Cynipidae
- gaster oval in lateral view
- large basal segment
- humpbacked appearance
- very round gaster
- light brown
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Evaniidae
- gaster with high and narrow connection to propdeum
- black or black and red
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Pelecinidae
- very long and slender gaster
- Large
- thick back legs (middle segment)
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Scelionidae
- very small
- elbowed antennae
- reduced venation
- triangular pronotum
- depressed abdomen
- really long antennae
- black with some speckles
- head pulled away from thorax with "neck"
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Chrysididae
- metallic blue or green
- 3-4 segmented gaster
- concave gaster ventrally
- golfball body
- antennae med length, thick
- brown eyes and ocelli
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Formicidae
- well developed wing venation
- elbowed antennae
- profound head in ants w/o wings
- tiny eyes
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Tiphiidae
- hindcoxae close together
- pair of plates at midcoxae
- black or brown and yellow
- look like scoliidae
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mutillidae
- very hairy
- colorful: oranges, reds, and blacks
- 2nd segment of gaster large and bulbous
- won't always have wings
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Scoliidae
- hairy
- hindcoxae seperated
- no ventral plates
- black or brown and yellow
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Pompilidae
- long legged
- dark, sometimes orange
- mesoplura with transverse suture (side view, second leg)
- hold antennae out and away from body
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Vespidae
- long distinct discoidal cell (longer than submedial cell)
- 3 submarginal cells
- antennae fall to the sides
- very thin shrunken wings
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Sphecidae
- Distinct lateral pronotal lobe
- some thread waisted
- wings held up over top of back
- ovate head
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Colletidae
- 2 or 3 submarginal cells
- jugal lobe longer than submedial cell
- single antennal suture
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Halictidae
- basal vein distinctly arched (M)
- 2 or 3 submarginal cells
- jugal lobe longer than submedial cell
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Andrenidae
- 2 or 3 submarginal cells
- jugal lobe longer than submedial cell
- Double antennal sutures
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Megachilidae
- Only 2 submarginal cells, ever
- jugal lobe shorter than submedial cell
- hindtibiae with apical spurs
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Apidae
- 3 submarginal cells
- hindtibiae WITHOUT spurs and jugal lobe shorter than submedial cell
- or
- Hindtibiae WITH spurs and NO jugal lobe
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