stenogastrines

Noun

stenogastrine (plural stenogastrines)

1. Any of the wasps of the subfamily Stenogastrinae.
   • Despite stenogastrines being recognized as sister to polistines and vespines (Carpenter 1982), the single origin of eusociality hypothesis dates to Carpenter (1988). As knowledge of stenogastrine ethology accumulated it became clear that eusociality was the ground plan of stenogastrines and...2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution, archived from the original on 27...