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Subfamily Crabroninae

Wasp 2 - Miscophus Crabronidae, dorsalX - female Small bee on Verbena on Spring Island, Okatie, SC - Liris - male Shield-handed Squarehead Wasp - Crabro - male yellow and black Hymenoptera Tachytes guatemalensis? - Tachytes guatemalensis - female Tachytes? - Tachytes guatemalensis - male Tachytes crassus? - Tachytes - male
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)
Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)
Subfamily Crabroninae
Other Common Names
"Square-headed wasps" (cf. iNaturalist) applies to only one of the tribes
Numbers
~520 spp. in 31 genera of 6 tribes in our area(1), ~4,660 spp. in >100 genera of 7 tribes worldwide(2)
Size
body 6-20 mm
Habitat
Adults commonly found on flowers
Remarks
Some nest in hollow stems or in abandoned galleries in wood, others burrow in the ground. Prey is mostly flies, but some utilize other insects.