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Liris Fabricius

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

Liris Fabricius, 1804

Classification
 

Liris abyssinicus (Arnold, 1933) (Ethiopia)

Liris alaris (de Saussure, 1892) (Madagascar)

Liris alaris felinus (Arnold, 1923) (South Africa)

Liris alberti (Arnold, 1943) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris angustiventris (Arnold, 1923) (Zimbabwe)

Liris antaka (de Saussure, 1890) (Madagascar)

Liris apicalis (Fox, 1896) (Ethiopia)

Liris aterrimus (Smith, 1856) (South Africa)

Liris atropos Gribodo 1984 (Mozambique)

Liris atrox Arnold, 1959 (Zambia)

Liris avellanipes (de Saussure, 1890) (Madagascar)

Liris avellanipes flavivena Arnold, 1947 (Zimbabwe)

Liris bembesianus (Bischoff, 1913) (Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Liris bembesianus pseudocroesus (Arnold, 1940) (Zimbabwe)
 

Liris bequearti Arnold, 1929 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris bidentatus (Arnold, 1923) (Zimbabwe)

Liris braunsi (Arnold, 1923 (Zimbabwe)

Liris bredoi Benoit, 1951 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris brunnipennis Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Liris ciliatus (Smith, 1856) (South Africa)

Liris consobrinus Arnold, 1959 (Tanzania)

Liris cowani (Kirby, 1883) (Madagascar)

Liris crepitans Leclercq, 1967 (Madagascar)

Liris croesus (Smith, 1856) (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris congoensis Arnold, 1932 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris dejectus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Liris denticulatus (Turner, 1920) (South Africa)

Liris dentipes tanganyikae Arnold, 1945 (Tanzania)

Liris diabolicus (Smith, 1873) (Kenya, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris dyscheirus (de Saussure, 1892) (Madagascar)

Liris erythropyga (Arnold, 1940) (Zimbabwe)

Liris erythrotomus (Cameron, 1908) (Tanzania)

Liris flavitinctus (Arnold, 1940) (Zimbabwe)

Liris ganahlii (Dalla Torre, 1892) (Madagascar)

Liris gowdeyi (Turner, 1913) (Uganda)

Liris gracilicornis (Arnold, 1923) (Zimbabwe)

Liris incertus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Liris irroratus tibialis Arnold, 1932 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris ituriensis Benoit, 1951 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris jucundus Arnold, 1959 (Tanzania)

Liris keiseri (Leclercq, 1961) (Madagascar)

Liris memnonius coloripes Arnold, 1940 (Madagascar)

Liris minimus (Arnold, 1923) (Zimbabwe)

Liris minimus lacustris Arnold, 1947 (Zambia)

Liris miscophoides (Arnold, 1923) (Zimbabwe)

Liris montivagus (Cameron, 1908) (Tanzania)

Liris neavei (Turner, 1917) (Malawi)

Liris niger namana (Bischoff, 1913) (South Africa)

Liris nitens (Arnold, 1929) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris nugax (Kohl, 1894) (South Africa)
 

Liris ordinarius Arnold, 1932 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris radialis (de Saussure, 1887) (Madagascar)

Liris rufoscapus (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Liris rugifer (Turner, 1918) (Uganda)

Liris sabrinus (Leclercq, 1961) (Madagascar)

Liris scabriusculus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Liris sepulchralis (Gerstaecker, 1858) (Mozambique, Tanzania)

Liris sepulcharis hova (Arnold, 1945) (Madagascar)

Liris simulatrix (Arnold, 1923) (Zimbabwe)

Liris solstitialis (Smith, 1856) (Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania)

Liris thysanomerus usumbaraensis (Cameron, 1908) (Kenya)

Liris transvaalensis (Cameron, 1910) (South Africa)

Liris tropicalis Arnold, 1960 (Liberia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Liris utopicus (Leclercq, 1961) (Madagascar)

Liris voeltzkowii (Kohl, 1909) (Madagascar)

Liris wheeleri Arnold, 1960 (Zimbabwe)

Liris xanthopterus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Liris nyasae Arnold, 1947 (Malawi)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest constructed in ground or plant stems with paralyzed adult Orthoptera, Hemiptera or Lepidoptera caterpillars for consumption by the wasp larvae.

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 © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Steve A. Marshall (University of Guelph).

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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