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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps


California wasps of the genus Oxybelus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabroninae)
By Bohart R.M. and Schlinger E.I.
Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 4(4): 103-142, 1957
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Synopsis of the California species with a key to North American species.

The wasps of the genus Solierella in California (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Larrinae)
By Williams F.X.
Proc. CAS (Ser.4) 26: 355-417, 1950

Taxonomic notes on the wasps of the subgenus Pseneo Malloch (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
By Krombein, K.V.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 52: 277–287, 1950

A systematic study of North American Priononyx
By Parker F.D.
Pan-Pac. Entomol. 36: 205-208, 1960

A Review of the genus Palmodes in North America
By R. M. Bohart and A. S. Menke
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Vol. 63, pp. 179-191, 1961

A review of the North American species of Philanthus, north of Mexico
By Strandtmann R.W.
Ohio State U. Grad. School studies. Contrib. Zool. Entomol. 7. 126 pp., 1946

The Natural History and Behavior of North American Beewolves
By Howard Ensign Evans, Kevin M. O'Neill
Comstock Publishing, 1988

Composition of spider prey captured by the wasp Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) tridentatum tridentatum in two habitats in an oasis in
By Karina Domínguez & María Luisa Jiménez
The Canadian Entomologist 140: 388–392, 2008
Complete title: "Composition of spider prey captured by the wasp Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) tridentatum tridentatum in two habitats in an oasis in Baja California Sur, Mexico"

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