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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

Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
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)
Remarks
Roosting behaviour
Print References
(1)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the apoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Apoidea excluding Anthophila) of Canada, Alaska and Greenland
Buck M., Bennett A.M.R. 2025. J. Hymenopt. Res. 98: 195‒291.
2.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
3.Pulawski W.J. (2003-) Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (Apoidea excluding Apidae)
4.The bees of Colorado (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
V.L. Scott, J.S. Ascher, T. Griswold, C.R. Nufio. 2011. Natural History Inventory of Colorado 23: vi+100 pp.
5.Sphecid wasps of the world: a generic revision
Richard Mitchell Bohart, Arnold S. Menke. 1976. University of California Press.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 June, 2007 - 7:32am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 23 June, 2025 - 7:14pm

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