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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Bembicina

Subtribe Bembicina

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Bicyrtes - quadrifasciata? - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Big bee - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Bicyrtes Wasp Sp? - Bicyrtes insidiatrix - male Wasp on Oregano - Bembix Solitary wasp - Bembix Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus? - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)
Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)
Subfamily Bembicinae
Tribe Bembicini (Sand Wasps)
Subtribe Bembicina
Numbers
ca. 40 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1), >450 spp. in 11 genera worldwide (of which ~350 Bembix spp.)(2)
Identification
CA fauna treated in(3)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.Pulawski W.J. (2003-) Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (Apoidea excluding Apidae)
3.California Bembicine Sand Wasps
R. M. Bohart and D. S. Horning, Jr. 1971. Bull. Calif. Insect Survey, Vol. 13, 49 pp. -- University of California Press.
Contributed by Matthias Buck on 4 April, 2008 - 2:35pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 21 March, 2019 - 7:00pm

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