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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) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini)

Tribe Bembicini - Sand Wasps

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Food · Print References · Works Cited
Pacific Cicada Killer - Sphecius convallis - male Sand wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Hymenoptera Q, ID please - Bembix Point Reyes Bembix - Bembix Wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Wasp, Hoplisoides? - Hoplisoides Sphecius speciosus (Drury) - Sphecius speciosus Wasp
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 Bembicinae
Tribe Bembicini (Sand Wasps)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
the classification of this tribe has been recently revamped by Nemkov & Ohl (2011), and the changes incorporated in(1)(2), as well as in the Guide
Numbers
>200 spp. in 27 genera of 6 subtribes in our area(1), >1400 spp. in 62 genera of 8 subtribes worldwide(2)
Food
About three quarters of the species prey on Diptera, and it is believed that fly predation is ancestral in the group; the rest prey on Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, and/or Homoptera. (Evans 2002)
Print References
NEMKOV, P. G., & OHL, M. (2011). A cladistic analysis and reclassification of the tribe Bembicini (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae). Zootaxa, 2801(1), 27–47. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2801.1.2
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
Contributed by Matthias Buck on 1 April, 2008 - 4:45pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 6 July, 2021 - 12:19pm

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