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Stizoides Guérin-Méneville
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family: Bembicidae; Subfamily: Bembicinae)
Stizoides
Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (as subgenus of Stizus). Type species:
Larra fasciata Fabricius, 1798, junior secondary homonym of Stizus
fasciatus (Fabricius, 1798) [= Sphex assimilis Fabricius, 1787],
designated by J. Parker, 1929.
Omphalius Vachal, 1900, junior homonym of Omphalius Philippi,
1847. Type species: Omphalius niger Vachal,
1900 [= Stizoides niger (Radoszkowski, 188)], by monotypy.
Scotomphales Vachal, 1900. Substitute name for Omphalius Vachal,
1900.
Tachystizus Minkiewicz, 1934. Unavailable name as type species was not
designated.
Tachystizus Pate, 1937. Type species: Crabro tridentatus
Fabricius, 1775, by original designation. Validation of Tachystizus
Minkiewicz, 1934.
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Stizoides abdominalis Dahlbom,
1845 (Egypt, United Arab Emirates) |
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Stizoides
amoena
F. Smith, 1856 (Oman,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan, West Africa) |
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Stizoides aryan Ohl, 1999
(India) |
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Stizoides assimilis (Fabricius,
1787) (Algeria, Dubai, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United
Arab Emirates, Yemen) |
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Stizoides blandinus F. Smith,
1856 (India) |
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Stizoides citrinus (Klug,
1845) (Egypt, India, Niger, United Arab Emirates) |
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Stizoides conscriptus (Nurse,
1903)
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Stizoides cornutus (F. Smith,
1873)
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Stizoides crassicornis (Fabricius,
1787)
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Stizoides cyanipennis (de Saussure, 1887)
(Madagascar)
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Stizoides cyanopterus (Gussakovskij,
1928)
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Stizoides erythrogaster
(Turner, 1917)
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Stizoides fenestratus
(Smith, 1856) (Democratic
Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
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Stizoides foxi Gillaspy, 1963
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Stizoides funebris (Handlirsch, 1900) (Namibia,
South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
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Stizoides
klugii
(Smith, 1856) (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Saudi Arabia,
United Arab Emirates, Yemen)
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Stizoides labirubiginus (X.
Zhang and Q. Li, 2011)
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Stizoides melanopterus (Dahlbom,
1845)
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Stizoides mionii (Guérin-Méneville,
1844)
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Stizoides
niger Radoszkowski, 1881 (Angola, Gabon, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Uganda) |
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Stizoides persimilis (Turner, 1918) (Kenya)
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Stizoides renicinctus (Say,
1823) |
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Stizoides
rubifunebris
Ohl, 1999 (Mali, Nigeria, Sudan) |
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Stizoides
sahel
Ohl, 1999 (Mali, Mauritania) |
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Stizoides simpsoni (Turner, 1916) (Ghana)
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Stizoides sokoto (Ohl, 1999) (Nigeria)
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Stizoides
tridentatus
(Fabricius, 1775) (Afghanistan, Algeria, Bulgaria, Crimea,
Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy,
Kazakhstan, Libya, [?Madagascar], Morocco, Mongolia, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia) |
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Stizoides tuberculiventris (Turner, 1912)
(Zimbabwe)
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Stizoides verhoeffi
Bytinski-Salz in de Beaumont and Bytinski-Salz, 1955 |
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Stizoides zulu
Ohl, 1999 (South Africa) |
Distribution
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Afrotropical, Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions. |
Biology
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Cleptoparasites. Females lay their eggs on Orthoptera
prey in nests of other crabronid wasp species (Ohl, 1999). |
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.
Ohl, M. 1999. Stizoides
Guérin-Méneville, 1844, and the evolution of cleptoparasitism in
Hymenoptera (Apoidea: "Sphecidae"). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für
Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologische Reihe 75: 63-169. |
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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