HYMENOPTERA :: Sphecidae :: Sphecinae :: Isodontia

Isodontia diodon (Kohl, 1890)

Biology

Solitary, predatory wasps hunting Blattodea.

Sources

Barthelemy C. 2012. Nest Trapping, a simple method for gathering information on life histories of solitary bees and wasps. Bionomics of 21 species of solitary aculeate in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Entomological Bulletin 4: 3–37. 

Barthélémy C & Guénard B. 2025. An annotated and illustrated checklist of Hong Kong aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoid wasps; Pompilioidea; Scolioidea; Thynnoidea; Tiphioidea; Vespoidea; Chrysidoidea). Insecta Mundi 1115: 1–230.

Broad G. & Barthelemy C. 2012. A new species of Hadrocryptus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae), with the first account of the biology for the genus. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 24: 1–47. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.24.1888

Dollfuss H. 2008. The Sphecini wasps of the genera Chilosphex Bohart & Menke, Isodontia Patton, Palmodes Kohl, Prionyx van der Linden and Sphex Linnaeus of the “Biologiezentrum Linz” collection in Linz, Austria, (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Sphecidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 40: 1399–1434.

Hensen R.V. 1991. Review of Malesian Sphecina (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Sphecinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 134: 9–30.