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Genus Eucerceris

Eucerceris superba - male Eucerceris provancheri? - Eucerceris provancheri Hymenoptera - Eucerceris rubripes Unknown California wasp - Eucerceris provancheri red-headed money buckwheat wasp - Eucerceris Eucerceris bitruncata? - Eucerceris - male Cerceris? - Eucerceris Weevil Wasp Sp - Eucerceris
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 Philanthinae
Tribe Cercerini
Genus Eucerceris
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Eucerceris Cresson 1865
Numbers
23 spp. in our area (all in the US, 4 reach Canada), 37 total(2)
Identification
outer veinlet of third submarginal cell meeting marginal cell well beyond its outer third; terga with median or submedian transverse depressions (unlike in Cerceris)(3)
Range
NA (Canada to Costa Rica), most diverse in sw. US and Mexico(2)
Food
Prey: adult Curculionidae(3)
Remarks
Burrows made in ground(3)