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Mellinus abdominalis Cresson,
1882
Mellinus alpestris Cameron, 1890
Mellinus andinus Menke, 1996
Mellinus arvensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mellinus bimaculatus Packard, 1867
Mellinus costaricae (R. Bohart,
2000)
Mellinus crabroneus (Thunberg, 1791)
Mellinus globulosus (Fourcroy, 1785)
Mellinus hansoni Menke, 1996
Mellinus iani Menke, 1996
Mellinus imperialis R. Bohart, 1968
Mellinus obscurus Handlirsch, 1888
Mellinus orientalis S. Gupta, Gayubo and Pulawski, 2008
Mellinus pygmaeus Handlirsch, 1888
Mellinus rufinodus Cresson, 1865
Mellinus satanicus Siri and R. Bohart, 1974 |
Distribution
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Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions. |
Biology
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Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest with
paralyzed prey (Diptera) for consumption by the larvae. |
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.
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
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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 © Aiwok / CC BY-SA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mellinus_arvensis_3.JPG)
Map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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