| Euparagia | |
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| Euparagia desertorum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Euparagiinae |
| Genus: | Euparagia Cresson, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Euparagia scutellaris Cresson, 1879 [1] | |
| Species | |
See text | |
Euparagia is a genus of wasps in the family Vespidae, the only extant genus in the subfamily Euparagiinae.
The following species are classified within the genus Euparagia:
Euparagia wasps are little known and the biology of only one species, Euparagia scutellaris, is known, and the females provision nests in the soil with weevil larvae. [1]
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