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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

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


A First Florida Record and Note on the Nesting of Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) texense Saussure (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
By Frank E. Kurczewski
The Florida Entomologist Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 243-245, 1963

A Redescription of the Female and Description of the Male of Tachysphex pechumani (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Larrinae)
By Frank E. Kurczewski, Nancy B. Elliott, & Carey E. Vasey
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 63(6): 1594-1597, 1970

A review of the genus Moniaecera (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Pemphilidini)
By Pate V.S.L.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 74: 41-60, 1948

Genus Stizus Latreille in North America (Hymenoptera: Nyssoninae)
By J.W. Stubblefield
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 150: 397-428, 1984

A review of the genus Hoplisoides Gribodo (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Gorytini) in North America
By Bohart R.M.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 99: 645-660, 1997

Review of the Canadian species of Hoplisoides (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with revisionary notes on the H. placidus species group
By Buck M.
J. Ent. Soc. Ontario 137: 63-79, 2006

A Revisionary Study of the Genus Steniolia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Bembicini)
By James E. Gillaspy
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 89, No. 1/2, pp. 1-117, 1963

A review of the Nearctic species of Crabro (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
By Bohart R.M.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 102: 229-287, 1976