Dasyproctus - WaspWeb

Dasyproctus Lepeletier & Brullé

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Crabronidae; Subfamily: Crabroninae; Tribe: Crabronini)

	Dasyproctus abax Leclercq, 1958 (Zaire) Dasyproctus angusticollis (Arnold, 1926) (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus angustifrons (Arnold, 1927) (South Africa) Dasyproctus barkeri (Arnold, 1927) (South Africa) Dasyproctus nyholmi Arnold, 1952 (Uganda) Dasyproctus basifasciatus (Arnold, 1951) (Ethiopia) Dasyproctus benoiti Leclercq, 1958 (Zaire)
	Dasyproctus bipunctatus bipunctatus Lepeletier and Brullé (Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zaire)
	Dasyproctus bipunctatus avius (Arnold, 1951) (Ethiopia) Dasyproctus bipunctatus lugubris (Arnold, 1927) (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus bipunctatus rebellus Leclercq, 1958 (Rwanda) Dasyproctus bipunctatus tanzaniae Leclercq, 1990 (Tanzania) Dasyproctus boketanus Leclercq, 1990 (Zaire)
	Dasyproctus braunsii (Kohl, 1894) (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa)
	Dasyproctus bredoi (Arnold, 1947) (Zambia) Dasyproctus callani Leclercq, 1990 (South Africa) Dasyproctus croceosignatus (Arnold, 1940) (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus bicuspidatus Arnold, 1944 (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus crudelis (de Saussure, 1892) (Madagascar) Dasyproctus dubiosis (Arnold, 1926) (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus erythrotoma (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa) Dasyproctus ferox (de Saussure, 1892) (Madagascar) Dasyproctus frater (Dahlbom, 1844) (South Africa) Dasyproctus immitis (de Saussure, 1892) (South Africa) Dasyproctus jacksoni Leclercq, 1990 (Cameroon) Dasyproctus kibonotensis Cameron, 1908 (Tanzania) Dasyproctus uniguttatus (Arnold, 1951) (Ethiopia) Dasyproctus kutui Leclercq, 1958 (Zaire) Dasyproctus lambertoni Leclercq, 1958 (Madagascar) Dasyproctus lichtenburgensis (Arnold, 1926) (South Africa) Dasyproctus localis Leclercq, 1958 (Namibia) Dasyproctus medicus Leclercq, 1958 (Zaire) Daspyroctus saevus (de Saussure, 1892) (Madagascar) Dasyproctus saussurei (Kohl, 1894) (Madagascar) Dasyproctus simillimus (Smith, 1856) (South Africa) Dasyproctus simillimus funereus (Arnold, 1926) (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus simillimus kenyanus Leclercq, 1990 (Kenya) Dasyproctus simillimus oedignathus (Arnold, 1933) (Ethiopia) Dasyproctus simillimus tervureni Leclercq, 1958 (Zaire) Dasyproctus vumbuiensis (Arnold, 1932) (Zimbabwe) Dasyproctus westermanni (Dahlbom, 1844) (South Africa) Dasyproctus rhodesiensis Arnold, 1926 (Zimbabwe)
	Dasyproctus species (Reunion)

Distribution	Afrotropical, Oriental and Australasian regions.
Biology	Females make their nests in plant stems and provision with flies (Chloropidae, Lonchaeidae, Muscidae, Otitidae, Syrphidae, Tephritidae are commonly used).
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. Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014. Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. 320 pp.
Links	CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).
Credits	Photographs © Vida van der Walt (Pretoria).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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