hymenopterous

In the ptilota, or winged insects, the hymenopterous are the rasorial type, and it is not therefore surprising to find amongst them the ants and bees, "the most social, intelligent, and in the latter case, most useful to man, of all the annulose animals."

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

It is particularly observable in a hymenopterous insect called the

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Don Felix Azara (vol. i, p. 175), mentioning a hymenopterous insect, probably of the same genus, says he saw it dragging a dead spider through tall grass, in a straight line to its nest, which was one hundred and sixty-three paces distant.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Don Felix Azara (vol. i, p. 175), mentioning a hymenopterous insect, probably of the same genus, says he saw it dragging a dead spider through tall grass, in a straight line to its nest, which was one hundred and sixty-three paces distant.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

These are often wasps belonging to one of several different genera of the hymenopterous family Agaonidae (Chalcidoidea).

Chapter 6 1994

Ants would not be separated from other hymenopterous insects, however high the instinct of the one and however low the instincts of the other.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Dioica shrub of _Chummun_; trees and these shrubs occupied by thousands of a hymenopterous insect or fly.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Ants would not be separated from other hymenopterous insects, however high the instinct of the one and however low the instincts of the other.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

All the members of the great order of hymenopterous insects are terrestrial excepting the genus Proctotrupes, which Sir John Lubbock has discovered to be aquatic in its habits; it often enters the water and dives about by the use not of its legs but of its wings, and remains as long as four hours beneath the surface; yet it exhibits no modification in structure in accordance with its abnormal habits.

VI. Difficulties of the Theory. On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure 1909