- Animalia
- multicellular eukaryotic organisms
- ex. starfish, tigers, crabs, jellyfish, octopus, cardinal
- Arthropoda
- Hexapoda
- Bodies are divided into an anterior head, posterior abdomen and thorax.
- Insecta
- Invertebrates; three part body; compound eyes; one pair of antennae
- Pterygota
- winged insects;
- Neoptera
- wings that can flex over abdomens, ex. honeybees,
- Hymenoptera
- hind wings are connected to the fore wings; young develop through metamorphosis
- ex. wasps, bees, ants
- Apocrita
- distinguished by a narrow waist (petiole) formed between two segments of the abdomen.
- ex. bees, wasps, ants
- Aculeata
- Modification of the ovipositor (used to lay eggs) into a stinger;
- ex. bees, ants
- Vespoidea
- ex. wasps, ants
- Vespidae
Over 5,000 species of wasps including all known eusocial and solitary wasps
- Vespidae