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Family Crabronidae - Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies

Beewolf? - Crossocerus impressifrons Square headed wasp - Lestica confluenta wasp - female small sand wasp - Bembecinus Ectemnius ? - Ectemnius Bicyrtes spinosa? - Bicyrtes insidiatrix - male Sphecid Wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus - female Colfax-J.2022.01 - Pemphredon
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)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Formerly lumped with Sphecidae(1); paraphyletic group with respect to bees (the latter arise from within Crabronidae)(2)
Explanation of Names
Crabronidae Latreille 1802
Numbers
1225 spp. in 98 genera of 6 subfamilies in our area(3); almost 9,000 spp. in >240 genera of 8 subfamilies worldwide(4)
Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide)
Family Crabronidae
Subfamily Bembicinae
Tribe Bembicini
Subfamily Crabroninae
Tribe Crabronini
Tribe Larrini
Subtribe Larrina Larra · Liris (subg. Leptolarra · *Motes)
Subfamily Mellininae
Subfamily Pemphredoninae
Subfamily Philanthinae
Food
Prey includes aphids, bees, beetles, bugs, butterflies & moths, cicadas, cockroaches, crickets, flies, grasshoppers, hoppers, mantids, and spiders. A few species are kleptoparasitic, providing their larvae with prey captured by other wasps.
Life Cycle
Nest-sharing occurs in some groups, especially Pemphredoninae and Philanthinae. Nesting habits and prey of FL spp.
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