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Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps

Sand-loving wasp - Tachytes distinctus - male Cerceris? - Cerceris Small Wasp? - Hoplisoides Unknown Invert  4128 - Prionyx Mustache Wasp - Crabro Unknown Wasp - Sphex lucae - female small black wasp - Trypoxylon Crabronina sp
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
equivalent to traditional Sphecidae (sensu lato) in older literature; most recently, treated as containing 10 families in our area: Ammoplanidae, Ampulicidae, Astatidae, Bembicidae, Crabronidae, Mellinidae, Pemphredonidae, Philanthidae, Psenidae, and Sphecidae(1)
Numbers
~1360 spp. in 112 genera of 3 families in our area(2), >9700 spp. in 4 families (Heterogynaidae is a small Old World group) worldwide(3)
Identification
key to genera in (5)
Print References
(1)