FAUNA PARAGUAY WASP IMAGE GALLERY

Many thanks to Bolivar Garcete for his assistance and generosity with Hymenopteran information!
Designed by Paul Smith 2006. This website is copyrighted by law. Material contained herewith may not be used without the prior written permission of FAUNA Paraguay. Photographs on this web-site were taken by Paul Smith, Hemme Batjes, Regis Nossent,
Alberto Esquivel, Arne Lesterhuis, Rebbeca Zarza, José Luis Cartes and Hugo del Castillo and are used with their permission.

Use the links below to access the images in the wasp family galleries. The numbers in brackets refer to the total number of species of each family in Paraguay, with the first number referring to the number of species for which we currently have images. The information presented here is based almost entirely on the publications of Bolivar Garcete and we thank him enormously for his co-operation, generosity and assistance in identifying the wasps images. We currently have images of 26 species of wasp.

FAMILY BRACONIDAE (1/1)

FAMILY CHALCIDIDAE (2/2) "Parasitic Wasps"

FAMILY CRABRONIDAE (3/39) "Sand Wasps"

FAMILY DRYNIDAE (0/32)

FAMILY ICHNEUMONIDAE (3/3) "Ichneumon Wasps"

FAMILY LEUCOSPIDAE (0/13)

FAMILY MUTILLIDAE (1/1) "Velvet Ants"

FAMILY POMPILIDAE (2/46) "Spider Wasps"

FAMILY SCOLIIDAE (1/1) "Scarab Hawks"

FAMILY SPHECIDAE (1/6) "Digger Wasps"

FAMILY VESPIDAE (12/91) "Yellowjackets"