3. HYMENOPTERA
• This is the most benificial order in the class insecta comprising of
parasite,predators and bees involved in pollination and honey
production.Most of them are social living.
• Hymenoptera derived from two words i.e.HYMEN means
MEMBRANOUS and PTERON means WING.(Nacked membranous
wing)
• Larvaes of hymenoptera known as grube with well developed
head compound eyes and ocelli usually 3 or absent.
• Antennae longer in male than female antennae helps in sexual
dimorphism.
• Mouth parts are biting,lapping and sucking type.
• Two pairs of nacked membranous wings are present.Hind wings
are smaller and have a row of tiny hooks on their anterior margin
by which they attach to the front wings.
• Metamorphosis is complete and complex.
4. HYMENOPTERA DIVIDED INTO FOUR
FAMILIES THAT ARE AS FOLLOW:-
1 .TENTHREDINIDAE:-
-Adult feed on flower and foliage or some insect
feed on small insets(carnivorous).
-Antennae 3-6 or 8-11 segmented,filiform or
setaceous.
-Trochanter 2-segmented.
-Ovipositor well developed and two sexes are
different in coloured in many
species.Parthenogenesis is common.
-Example:- mustard sawfly , athalia lugens proxima
5. 2. ICHMEUMONIDAE
-Largest families in the entire class insecta.They are
slender wasp like insect.
-Antennae longer with more than 16 segments and
filiform type.
-Abdomen long and slender , petialate usually curved
and expanded apically.
-Most of ahe member are endoparasite and undergo
complete metamorphosis i.e. hyper
metamorphosis.Caudal prolongation of tail .
-In fore wings the costal cell is wanting and have two
recurrent veins while braconids have one or more.
-Example:-Larval parasite on jower stem borer-
Xanthopimpla
6. 3.BRANCONIDAE:-
-Abdomen sessile or sub sessile or petiolate.
-Costal is wanting in forewings with one re current
vein.
-Ovipositor is well developed.
-Poly embryony occurs in a few species of this
family.
-Example:-Larval parasite on jower stem borer-
Apanteles
7. 4.TRICHOGRAMMATIDE:-
• Minute insects with three tarsal segments.
• Microscopic hairs on wings arranged in rows.
• Egg parasitoids on lepidopterans.
• Example:-Trichogramma
minutum,T.Chilonis,T.Japonicum