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Tribe Larrini

Cricket Hunter with prey - Liris species - Liris wasp - Larra analis Larra bicolor on car window, Side view - Larra bicolor liris? - Liris - female Wasp - Tachytes - male Crabronidae - Tachytes - Tachytes - female Bee - Tachytes Wasp ID Request
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)
Family Crabronidae
Subfamily Crabroninae (Square-headed Wasps)
Tribe Larrini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly placed in subfamily Larrinae of family Sphecidae; tranferred to subfamily Crabroninae in family Crabronidae by Prentice (1998) and Melo (1999) - see PDF doc by Pulawski in Internet References section below
Numbers
1,292 species in the world
Remarks
The older classification (within subfamily Larrinae of family Sphecidae) is shown at Insects of Cedar Creek.
Internet References
classification; PDF doc of superfamily Apoidea (Wojciech Pulawski, 2006, California Academy of Sciences)
number of species worldwide (California Academy of Sciences)