Stenogastrinae

Taxobox
name = Stenogastrinae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Vespidae
subfamilia = Stenogastrinae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
*"Anischnogaster" van der Vecht
*"Cochlischnogaster" Dong and Otsuka
*"Eustenogaster" van der Vecht
*"Liostenogaster" van der Vecht
*"Metischnogaster" van der Vecht
*"Parischnogaster" von Schulthess
*"Stenogaster" Guérin
*"Parischnogaster" von Schulthess

The Stenogastrinae (sometimes referred to as hover wasps) are a subfamily of Indomalayan and New Guinean Vespid wasps with a diverse biology from solitary to social.

The subfamily contains 8 currently recognized genera [cite web | url=http://www.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/~jkrte/wasp/steno/top.html | title=Checklist of the species of the subfamily Stenogastrinae Bequaert, 1918 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). (Natural History Laboratory, Ibaraki University (IUNH) and WASP (World Association for the Study of Paperwasps) Japan). 13 : 5 - 26 | author=Carpenter, James Michael and Kojima, Jun-Ichi | date=2006] .

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