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Sphex abyssinicus (Arnold, 1928)
(Ethiopia)
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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) |
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Sphex bohemanni
Dahlbom, 1845 (South
Africa, Tanzania)
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Sphex caeruleanus
Drury, 1773 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea,
Ivory Coast, Liberia, South Africa)
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Sphex
caliginosus Erichson, 1849 (Neotropical region) |
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Sphex castaneipes Dahlbom, 1843 (South
Africa)
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Sphex decipiens
decipiens Kohl, 1895 (South Africa)
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Sphex decipiens meridionalis (Arnold,
1947) (Zambia)
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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)
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Sphex
fumicatus voeltzkowii Kohl, 1909 (Madagascar)
Sphex
gaullei
Berland, 1927 (Congo, Ethiopia)
Sphex
haemorrhoidalis haemorrhoidalis
Fabricius, 1781 (Angola, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania,
Zambia, 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, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
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Sphex malagassus
de Saussure, 1890
(Madagascar)
Sphex mochii
Giordani Soika, 1942
(Ethiopia)
Sphex neavei (Arnold, 1928) (Democratic
Republic of Congo, Kenya,
Malawi, Tanzania, 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 (Democratic
Republic of Congo, Kenya,
Mozambique, Tanzania, 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)
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Sphex
taschenbergi Magretti, 1884 (Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Namibia,
South Africa, Southern Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. Also Palaearctic
region: Oman, United Arab Emirates) |
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Sphex tomentosus
Fabricius,
1787 (Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia,
Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
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Sphex torridus F.Smith, 1873 (Madagascar) |
Distribution
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Worldwide. |
Biology
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Excavate nests in soil and are mostly gregarious.
Colonies may exist for many years. They prey on grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
in the family Tettigoniidae, and less often crickets in the families
Gryllacrididae and Gryllidae (Bohart & Menke, 1976). |
References
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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
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CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE
sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences). |
Credits
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Photographs ©
Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums
of South Africa).
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