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Stizus Latreille

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Crabronidae; Subfamily: Bembicinae; Tribe: Bembicini)

Stizus Latreille

  Stizus apicalis Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (Ethiopia, Senegal)

Stizus atrox (Smith, 1856) (Central Africa, South Africa)

Stizus aurifluus Turner, 1916 (Ghana)

Stizus baumanni Handlirsch, 1901 (Ethiopia, Tanzania)

Stizus beccarii Mantero, 1917 (Ethiopia)

Stizus berlandi Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Stizus breyeri Arnold, 1936 (South Africa)

Stizus chrysorrhoeus Handlirsch, 1892 (South Africa)

Stizus dewitzii Handlirsch, 1892 (South Africa)

Stizus ellenbergeri Arnold, 1929 (South Africa)

Stizus erythraeensis Mantero, 1917 (Ethiopia)

Stizus erythrocephala (Taschenberg, 1880) (Ethiopia)

Stizus excellens Lohrmann, 1943 (South Africa)

Stizus fuscipennis (Smith, 1856) (South Africa)

Stizus hamatus Arnold, 1929 (South Africa)

Stizus imperialis Handlirsch, 1892 (South Africa)

Stizus lohrmanni Bohart, 1939 (South Africa)

Stizus marshalli Turner, 1912 (South Africa)

Stizus melanurus Handlirsch, 1892 (South Africa)

Stizus multicolor Turner, 1916 (East Africa, South Africa)

Stizus neavei Turner, 1912 (South Africa)

Stizus pauli Mantero, 1917 (Ethiopia)

Stizus richardsi Arnold, 1959 (South Africa)

Stizus rubellus Turner, 1912 (South Africa)

Stizus saussurei Handlirsch, 1895 (South Africa)

Stizus wheeleri Arnold, 1959 (Zimbabwe)

Distribution

 

Biology

Females excavate burrows in sandy soil. One to several cells are provisioned with mantids or grasshoppers.

References

Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.

Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp. 279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Links

CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).

Credits

 

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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