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Subtribe Gorytina

Wasp - Gorytes Wasp with prey - Gorytes - female Family Crabronidae  Bembicini - Sand Wasps Saygorytes phaleratus  - Saygorytes phaleratus - female Blue-winged Wasp with Yellow Stripes Buries a wood chip? - Hoplisoides crabronid wasp - Lestiphorus cockerelli Wasp ID request - Gorytes smithii Not a yellow jacket Gorytina? - Hoplisoides - female
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)
Subtribe Gorytina
Explanation of Names
Gorytina Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau 1845
Numbers
~90 spp. in 11 genera in our area(1) (genera such as Oryttus do not yet have identified BG or iNaturalist records), ~380 spp. in 27 genera worldwide(2)