Subfamily Ammophilinae

• Genus Ammophila Kirby, 1798

  • Ammophila africana Dollfuss, 2015 (Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal)

  • Ammophila argyrocephala Arnold, 1951 (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila arnoldi Dollfuss, 2015 (South Africa)

  • Ammophila barbarorum Arnold, 1951 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania)

  • Ammophila bechuana (R.Turner, 1929) (Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila beniniensis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1806) (Algeria, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila bispinosa Dollfuss, 2015 (Angola, Zambia)

  • Ammophila braunsi (R.Turner, 1919) (Namibia, South Africa)

  • Ammophila calva (Arnold, 1920) (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique,
    Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila caprella Arnold, 1951 (Angola, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Togo, Zambia)

  • Ammophila centroafricana Dollfuss, 2015 (Central African Republic)

  • Ammophila conifera (Arnold, 1920) (Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
    Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila crassifemoralis (R.Turner, 1919) (Central African Republic, Uganda)

  • Ammophila clypeolineata Dollfuss, 2015 (Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda)

  • Ammophila curvistriata Cameron, 1908 (Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila dolichocephala Cameron, 1910 (Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila dolichodera Kohl, 1884 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila dubia Kohl, 1901 (Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen)

  • Ammophila fischeri Dollfuss, 2015 (Democratic Republic Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)

  • Ammophila gracillima Taschenberg, 1869 (Ethiopia, Sudan. Also Palaearctic region: Algeria, Arabia, China, Israel, Libya, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Russia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara; and Oriental region: India)

  • Ammophila insignis F.Smith, 1856 (Ethiopia, Gambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Also Palaearctic and Oriental regions)

  • Ammophila kalaharica (Arnold, 1935) (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)

  • Ammophila kenyensis Dollfuss, 2015 (Kenya)

  • Ammophila kohli Dollfuss, 2015 (Namibia)

  • Ammophila longiclypeata Dollfuss, 2015 (Namibia)

  • Ammophila malickyi Dollfuss, 2015 (Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila namibiensis Dollfuss, 2015 (Namibia)

  • Ammophila nigri Dollfuss, 2015 (Niger)

  • Ammophila nigrifrons Dollfuss, 2015 (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila parapunctaticeps Dollfuss, 2015 (South Africa)

  • Ammophila peringueyi (Arnold, 1928) (South Africa)

  • Ammophila pseudodolichodera Dollfuss, 2015 (Burkina Faso, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia)

  • Ammophila pseudokalaharica Dollfuss, 2015 (Mozambique, South Africa)

  • Ammophila punctaticeps (Arnold, 1920) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila ressli Dollfuss, 2015 (South Africa, Tanzania)

  • Ammophila rubiginosa Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845 (Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila rubripes Spinola, 1839 (Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
    Also Palaearctic region: Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Morocco)

  • Ammophila saussurei (du Buysson, 1897) (Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila schalleri Dollfuss, 2015 (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya)

  • Ammophila snizeki Dollfuss, 2015 (South Africa)

  • Ammophila theryi (Gribodo, 1894) (Kenya. Also Palaearctic region: Algeria, Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), Israel, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Syria)

  • Ammophila tuberculiscutis R. Turner, 1919 (Kenya, Namibia)

  • Ammophila turneri Dollfuss, 2015 (South Africa)

  • Ammophila vulcania du Buysson, 1897 (Benin, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Ammophila wahlbergi Dahlbom, 1845 (South Africa)

  • Ammophila zambiensis Dollfuss, 2015 (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Zambia)

  • Ammophila zetteli Dollfuss, 2015 (Angola, Cameron, Kenya, Zambia)

• Genus Parapsammophila Taschenberg, 1869

  • Parapsammophila consobrina (Arnold, 1928) (South Africa)

  • Parapsammophila errabunda (Kohl, 1901) (Ethiopia, Somalia)

  • Parapsammophila herero (Arnold, 1928) (Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe)

  • Parapsammophila ludovicus (F.Smith, 1856) (Angola, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo)

  • Parapsammophila ponderosa (Gerstaecker, 1871) (Kenya, Tanzania)

  • Parapsammophila testaceipes (R.Turner, 1918) (Tanzania)

  • Parapsammophila unguicularis (Kohl, 1901) (Mozambique)

• Genus Podalonia Fernald, 1927

  • Podalonia canescens canescens (Dahlbom, 1843) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen)

    • Podalonia canescens madecassa (Kohl, 1909) (Aldabra Islands, Madagascar)

Subfamily Chloriontinae

• Genus Chlorion Latreille, 1802

  • Chlorion funereum Gribodo, 1879 (Ethiopia)

  • Chlorion maxillosum maxillosum (Poiret, 1787) (Ethiopia, Libya, Somalia)

    • Chlorion maxillosum ciliatum (Fabricius, 1787) (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania)

  • Chlorion splendidum Fabricius, 1804 (Ethiopia, India, Madagascar, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)

Subfamily Sceliphrinae

• Tribe Sceliphrini Ashmead, 1899

  • Genus Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843

    • Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom, 1845) (Hawaii, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Socotra, South Africa)

    • Chalybion bocandei bocandei Hensen, 1988 (Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierre Leone)

      • Chalybion bocandei aeronitens Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Chalybion bonneti Leclercq, 1966 (Madagascar)

    • Chalybion clypeatum (Fairmaire, 1858) (Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, Tanzania)

      • Chalybion clypeatum lusingi (Leclercq, 1955) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

      • Chalybion clypeatum kiloensis (Leclercq, 1955) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Chalybion fuscum (Lepeletier, 1845) (Madagascar, Sri Lanka)

    • Chalybion gredleri (Kohl, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Chalybion japonicum (Gribodo, 1880) (China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand)

    • Chalybion kenyae Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)

    • Chalybion laevigatum (Kohl, 1888) (Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar)

    • Chalybion madecassum (Gribodo, 1883) (Madagascar, Seychelles Islands)

    • Chalybion mochii Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)

    • Chalybion parvulum Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)

    • Chalybion planatum (Arnold, 1951) (Ethiopia)

    • Chalybion ruficorne Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic)

    • Chalybion schulthessirechbergi (Kohl, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Chalybion sommereni (R.Turner, 1920) (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania)

    • Chalybion spinolae spinolae (Lepeletier, 1845) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia)

      • Chalybion spinolae rufopictum Magretti, 1884 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali)

      • Chalybion spinolae saussurei (Kohl, 1918) (South Africa)

    • Chalybion tibiale (Fabricius, 1781) (South Africa)

    • Chalybion triangulum Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Gambia, Togo)

  • Genus Sceliphron Klug, 1801

    • Sceliphron fistularium (Dahlbom, 1843) (Brazil, Colombia, Panama, South Africa)

    • Sceliphron fossuliferum fossuliferum (Gribodo, 1895) (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda)

      • Sceliphron fossuliferum complex Kohl, 1918 (Gabon, Tanzania)

      • Sceliphron fossuliferum voeltzkowii Kohl, 1909 (Angola, Kenya, Tanzania)

    • Sceliphron fuscum Klug, 1801 (Madagascar, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Reunion, Seychelles)

    • Sceliphron leptogaster Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

    • Sceliphron quartinae (Gribodo, 1884) (Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

    • Sceliphron spirifex (Linnaeus, 1758) (Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Toscana, Turkey, Uganda)

Subfamily Sphecinae

• Tribe: Prionychini Bohart and Menke, 1963

  • Genus Prionyx van der Linden, 1827

    • Prionyx crudelis F.Smith, 1856 (Burkina Faso, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen. Palaearctic region: Algeria, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq,  Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates. Oriental region: India)

    • Prionyx funebris (Berland, 1926) (Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa)

    • Prionyx indus (Linneaus, 1758) (Angola, India, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

    • Prionyx kirbii kirbii (van der Linden, 1827) (Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Palaearctic region: Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia including Western Siberia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)

      • Prionyx kirbii marginatus (F.Smith, 1856) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania)

    • Prionyx niveatus (Dufour, 1854) (Djibouti, Malawi, Niger, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Yemen. Palaearctic region: Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara)

    • Prionyx subfuscatus Giordani Soika, 1942 (Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Also Palaearctic region: Albania, Algeria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)

      • Prionyx subfuscatus albovillosulus Giordani Soika, 1942 (Somalia)

      • Prionyx subfuscatus rhodesianum (Arnold, 1936) (Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe)

      • Prionyx subfuscatus rukwaensis (Arnold, 1959) (Tanzania)

    • Prionyx sundewalli (Dahlbom, 1845) (South Africa)

    • Prionyx viduatus (Christ, 1791) (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Namibia, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Somalia, Tanzania, Yemen. Also Oriental region: India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; and Palaearctic region: Afghanistan, Algeria, Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara)

      • Prionyx viduatus mocsaryi (Kohl, 1885)

• Tribe Sphecini Latreille, 1802

  • Genus Isodontia Patton, 1880

    • Isodontia leonina (de Saussure, 1890) (Madagascar)

    • Isodontia longiventris (de Saussure, 1867) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

    • Isodontia pelopoeiformis (Dahlbom, 1845) (Angola, Benin, Bioko, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania)

    • Isodontia simoni du Buysson, 1898 (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)

    • Isodontia stanleyi (Kohl, 1890) (Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

  • Genus Sphex Linnaeus, 1758

    • Sphex abyssinicus (Arnold, 1928) (Ethiopia)

    • Sphex argentatus Fabricius, 1787 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan. Also Australasian: Australia; Palaearctic: China, Djibouti, Spain; Oriental: India, Indonesia, Japan, New Guinea, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan)

    • Sphex bohemanni Dahlbom, 1845 (South Africa, Tanzania)

    • Sphex caeruleanus Drury, 1773 (Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Sphex castaneipes Dahlbom, 1843 (South Africa)

    • Sphex caliginosus Erichson, 1849 (Neotropical region)

    • Sphex decipiens decipiens Kohl, 1895 (South Africa)

      • Sphex decipiens meridionalis (Arnold, 1947) (Zambia)

    • Sphex fumicatus fumicatus Christ, 1791 (Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen. Also Neotropical: Argentina; Oriental: India; Palaearctic: Turkey)

      • Sphex fumicatus voeltzkowii Kohl, 1909 (Madagascar)

    • Sphex gaullei Berland, 1927 (Congo, Ethiopia)

    • Sphex haemorrhoidalis haemorrhoidalis Fabricius, 1781 (Angola, Cameroon, China, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe)

      • Sphex haemorrhoidalis kobrowi (Arnold, 1928) (South Africa)

      • Sphex haemorrhoidalis umtalicus Strand, 1916 (Zimbabwe)

    • Sphex incomptus incomptus Gerstaecker, 1871 (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

      • Sphex incomptus anonymus Leclercq, 1955 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia)

    • Sphex jansei Cameron, 1910 (South Africa)

    • Sphex lanatus Mocsáry, 1883 (Central African Republic, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe)

    • Sphex malagassus de Saussure, 1890 (Madagascar)

    • Sphex mochii Giordani Soika, 1942 (Ethiopia)

    • Sphex neavei (Arnold, 1928) (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

    • Sphex nigrohirtus Kohl, 1895 (Cameroon, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

    • Sphex observabilis (R.Turner, 1918) (Uganda)

    • Sphex rufiscutis (R.Turner, 1918) (Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia)

    • Sphex satanas Kohl, 1898 (Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

    • Sphex schoutedeni Kohl, 1913 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Sphex stadelmanni stadelmanni Kohl, 1895 (South Africa)

      • Sphex stadelmanni integer (Arnold, 1928) (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

    • Sphex taschenbergi Magretti, 1884 (Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. Also Palaearctic region: Oman, United Arab Emirates)

    • Sphex tomentosus Fabricius, 1787 (Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia,  Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Sphex torridus F.Smith, 1873 (Madagascar)