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Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps


North American Bembix, a revised key and suggested grouping
By Evans H.E., Matthews R.W.
Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 61: 1284-1299, 1968

A key to the genus Tachytes in America north of Mexico with descriptions of three new species (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Larrinae)
By Richard Bohart
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 96:342-349, 1994

A revision of the genus Larropsis Patton (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
By Bohart R.M., Bohart G.E.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 92: 653-685, 1966

A revision of the Larropsis subgenus Ancistromma Fox (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
By Bohart R.M., Bohart G.E.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 64:21-37, 1962

Revision of North American Liris Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea: Larridae)
By Karl V. Krombein, Sandra Shanks Gingras
Smithsonian Institution Press, Smithsonian Contributions To Zoology, No. 104 (96 pp.), 1984

Improved key to New World species of Sphecius (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)
By Holliday C.W., Coelho J.R.
Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 99: 793-798, 2006

Reuse of old Trypoxylon politum nest by Chalybion californicum (Hymenoptera : Sphecidae) in New York, USA
By F.E.Kurczewski
Entomological News 114(5):241-245, 2003

Nocturnal clustering of the solitary wasp, Chalybion californicum (Saussure) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
By T.R.Prentice, G.P.Walker
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1991
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