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Bembix Fabricius
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family: Bembicidae; Subfamily: Bembicinae)
Bembix Fabricius, 1775. Type species: Bembex
rostrata of Fabricius, 1781 [= Apis rostrata Linnaeus, 1758],
designated by Latreille, 1810 (one of three species included in Bembyx by
Fabricius, 1775). Morice and Durrant (1915) gave the first type species
designation for the spelling of Bembix: Apis rostrata Linnaeus,
1757.
Bembyx Fabricius, 1775:361. Lapsus for Bembix Fabricius, 1775.
Bembex Fabricius, 1777:122. Emendation of Bembix Fabricius, 1775.
Apobembex Pate, 1937. Type species: Bembex oculata of
Latreille, 1805 [= Bembex oculata Panzer, 1801], by original designation.
Epibembex Pate, 1937. Type species: Apis rostrata Linnaeus,
1758, by original designation.
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Bembix abercornensis Arnold, 1960
(South Africa)
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Bembix afra Handlirsch, 1893
(South Africa)
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Bembix agrestis Parker, 1929
(Ethiopia) |
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Bembix alacris J. Parker, 1929 (Somalia) |
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Bembix albicapilla Arnold, 1946
(South Africa)
Bembix albata
Parker, 1929
(namibia, South Africa)
Bembix albopilosa Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix anomalipes Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix arnoldi Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix atrospinosa Turner, 1917
(South Africa)
Bembix baumanni Handlirsch, 1893
(South Africa)
Bembix bequearti Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix bequearti dira Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix brachyptera Arnold, 1952
(South Africa)
Bembix bubalus Handlirsch, 1893
(South Africa)
Bembix cameronis Handlirsch, 1893
(South Africa)
Bembix capensis Lepeletier, 1845
(South Africa)
Bembix capicola Handlirsch, 1893
(South Africa)
Bembix carinata Smith, 1856
(Ethiopia)
Bembix compedita Turner, 1913
(South Africa)
Bembix cultrifera Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix cultrifera ypsilon Arnold, 1951
(Ethiopia)
Bembix denticauda
Arnold, 1946 (South
Africa)
Bembix diversidens Arnold, 1946
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Bembix diversipennis Smith, 1873
(Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia,
Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe). |
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Bembix expansa
Gribodo, 1894 (Ethiopia)
Bembix flavicincta Turner, 1912 (South
Africa)
Bembix fraudulenta
Arnold, 1929 (South
Africa)
Bembix fuscipennis Lepeletier, 1845
(South Africa)
Bembix gracilens Parker, 1929 (Namibia)
Bembix grisescens Dahlbom, 1845 (South
Africa)
Bembix harenarum
Arnold, 1929 (South
Africa)
Bembix hova
Saussure, 1892 (Madagascar)
Bembix junodi
Arnold, 1929 (South Africa)
Bembix kriechbaumeri scitula Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix latebrosa Kohl, 1909 (Madagascar)
Bembix lineatifrons Cameron, 19190
(Tanzania)
Bembix liturata
Turner, 1917 (South
Africa)
Bembix liturata flavopicta Arnold, 1929
(South Africa)
Bembix lobatifrons Turner, 1913 (Kenya)
Bembix madecassa
Saussure, 1890
(Madagascar)
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Bembix
massaica Cameron, 1908 |
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Bembix melanopa Handlirsch, 1893 (South
Africa)
Bembix melanopa algoensis Arnold, 1946
(South Africa)
Bembix melanosoma Gribodo, 1894
(Mozambique)
Bembix moebii
Handlirsch, 1893 (Ethiopia)
Bembix monedula Handlirsch, 1893
(Ethiopia)
Bembix nupera Parker, 1929 (Kenya)
Bembix obtusa
Turner, 1917 (South Africa)
Bembix ochracea Handlirsch, 1893 (South
Africa)
Bembix odontopyga Turner, 1917 (South
Africa)
Bembix olivata
Dahlbom, 1845 (South
Africa)
Bembix opima Turner, 1917 (South Africa)
Bembix ornatilabiata
Cameron, 1910
(Tanzania)
Bembix rava
Arnold, 1952 (Kenya)
Bembix recurva Parker, 1929 (Cameroon)
Bembix scaura Arnold, 1929 (South Africa)
Bembix scotti Turner, 1912 (Nigeria)
Bembix sibilans
Handlirsch, 1893 (South
Africa)
Bembix silvestrii Maidl, 1914 (Nigeria)
Bembix speciosa
Arnold, 1929 (South
Africa)
Bembix stadelmanni Handlirsch, 1893
(Kenya)
Bembix stevensoni
Parker, 1929
(Central African Republic, South Africa)
Bembix tenuifasciata Parker, 1929
(Nigeria)
Bembix triangulifera Arnold, 1944 (South
Africa)
Bembix ugandensis Turner, 1913 (Uganda)
Bembix ulula
Arnold, 1919 (South Africa)
Bembix undulata Spinola, 1838 (South
Africa)
Bembix venusta
Arnold, 1929 (South
Africa)
Bembix versuta
Arnold, 1946 (South
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Bembix
species (South Africa) |
Distribution
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Worldwide. |
Biology
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Females excavate solitary burrows in sandy soil. Nests are provisioned with
flies (Calliphoridae, Muscidae, Syrphidae, Sarcophagidae, Tachinidae
among various other families). |
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.
Gadallah, NS. 2020.
Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the
Arabian Peninsula: Apoidea (Spheciformes), Crabronidae. Zootaxa
4754(1): 20–73.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.6
Gess F, Gess S 2014.
Geographical distributions of Bembix (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae,
Bembicinae) in southern Africa, with notes on biology. Journal of
Hymenoptera Research 36: 53–130, doi:
10.3897/JHR.36.6491 |
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 © Iziko Museums of South Africa,
or © Joan Young, or © Hennie de Klerk. |
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