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Stizus bizonatus Spinola

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Bembicidae; Subfamily: Bembicinae; Genus: Stizus)

Stizus bizonatus Spinola, 1839. Lectotype ♀ in Torino. Type locality: no specific locality, Egypt.

Larra sphegiformis Klug, 1845. Holotype: ♀ in Berlin (ZMHU). Type locality: Middle East: no specific locality. Synonymy by Handlirsch, 1892.
Larra erythrocephala Taschenberg, 1880. Junior primary homonym of Larra erythrocephala Fabricius, 1793. Syntypes: Ethiopia: no specific locality. Synonymy by Handlirsch, 1892.

 

Classification

Distribution

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates.

Biology

Females excavate burrows in sandy soil. One to several cells are provisioned with mantids or grasshoppers.

References

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 © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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