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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 » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Larrini » Gastrosericina » Tachytes

Genus Tachytes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Tachytes? - Tachytes Gastrosericina? - Tachytes - male The Six Wasp Special - #3 of 6 - Tachytes distinctus - male green eyed bee/wasp? - Tachytes distinctus - female Wasp - Tachytes A female Tachytes pennsylvanicus? - Tachytes - female Tachytes guatemalensis - male Tachytes guatemalensis
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 (Square-headed Wasps)
Tribe Larrini
Subtribe Gastrosericina
Genus Tachytes
Explanation of Names
Tachytes Panzer 1806
from the Greek ταχύτης, 'swiftness, speed'
Numbers
34 spp. in our area(1), ~300 worldwide(2)
Size
7-19 mm(3)
Identification
Key to spp. in (3)
Some species have very dark eyes:
♀ ♀ ♂ ♀
in some species, males have modified flagellomeres:
basal: apical:
Range
worldwide
Life Cycle
Nests in sand, provisioned with grasshoppers, katydids
See Also
Some other green-eyed wasps, e.g. Larra, look similar.
Tachysphex spp. are generally smaller, with a pointy abdomen, and no pygidial plate.
Print References
Hilltoping behavior: Alcock (2007)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato
3.A key to the genus Tachytes in America north of Mexico with descriptions of three new species (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Larrinae)
Richard Bohart. 1994. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 96:342-349.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 20 April, 2005 - 9:34pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 4 July, 2022 - 7:01am

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