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Crabronidae

Bee Wolves & Sand wasps of the Afrotropical region

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea)

Classification

  Astatinae
Bembicinae
Crabroninae
  Dinetinae
  Eremiaspheciinae
  Mellininae
  Pemphredoninae
Philanthinae

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest with paralyzed prey for consumption by the larvae.

References

Arnold, G. 1942. Systematic notes on African species of Cerceris (Hymenoptera) and descriptions of new species. Journal of Entomological Society of Southern Africa 5:1-25, pls. I-II.

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

Photographs © Norman Larsen (Iziko Museums) or Vida van der Walt (Pretoria) or Joan Young.


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