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Pison Jurine

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

Pison Jurine, 1808

Pison allonymum Schulz, 1906 (South Africa)

Pison auratum Shuckard, 1838 (South Africa)

Pison denticeps Cameron, 1910 (South Africa)

Pison humile Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Pison inaequale Turner, 1916 (Malawi)

Pison lobiferum Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Pison mimicum Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Pison montanum Cameron, 1908 (Kenya, South Africa, Zambia)

Pison multistrigatum Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Pison pasteelsi Leclercq, 1965 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Pison petularum Leclercq, 1965 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Pison pregustum Leclercq, 1965 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Pison premunitum Leclercq, 1965 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Pison repentinum Arnold, 1940 (Zimbabwe)

Pison rufitarse Arnold, 1944 (Zimbabwe)

Pison scruposum Arnold, 1955 (Zimbabwe)

Pison seyrigi Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Pison transvaalense Cameron, 1910 (South Africa)

Pison ugandense Arnold, 1955 (Uganda)

Pison wagneri Arnold, 1932 (Tanzania)

Distribution	Worldwide.
Biology	Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest with paralyzed spiders (Aranaea) that is either constructed in the ground, or constructed from mud within sheltered situations, or in pre-existing cavities such as hollow stems, or old abandoned nests, or key-holes (Bohart & Menke, 1976; Gess & Gess, 2014).
References	Antropov, A.V. 1999. A new genus of digger wasps of the tribe Oxybelini (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), Crabroninae) from South Africa. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 78(9):1132-1136. [In Russian. English translation: Entomological Review. 1999. 79(8):1055-1059.] Antropov, A.V. 2007. On the Taxonomy of South African Digger Wasps of the Tribe Oxybelini (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). Entmological Review 87: 413-430. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807040045 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, 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 © Iziko Museums of South Africa. Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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