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3 Records
Status
BugGuide cites 21 species in North America. Found throughout the continent during the summer.
Relationships
"Females provision their nest with flies which the larvae feed on (a single developing larva may eat more than twenty flies)" (BugGuide, 2018).
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Bembix species in Calvert Co., Maryland (7/20/2020). (c) jferris11, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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A Bembix species in Prince George's Co., Maryland (9/30/2018). Determined by John S. Ascher/BugGuide.
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Source: Wikipedia
Bembix | |
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Bembix oculata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Bembicidae |
Subfamily: | Bembicinae |
Tribe: | Bembicini |
Subtribe: | Bembicina |
Genus: | Bembix Fabricius, 1775 |
Type species | |
Bembix rostrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Species | |
Bembix rostrata |
Bembix is a large cosmopolitan genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 380 species.
List of species (Europe)
[edit]- Bembix bicolor Radoszkowski 1877
- Bembix bidentata Vander Linden 1829
- Bembix cinctella Handlirsch 1893
- Bembix flavescens F. Smith 1856
- Bembix geneana A. Costa 1867
- Bembix megerlei Dahlbom 1845
- Bembix merceti J. Parker 1904
- Bembix oculata Panzer 1801
- Bembix olivacea Fabricius 1787
- Bembix pallida Radoszkowski 1877
- Bembix rostrata (Linnaeus 1758)
- Bembix sinuata Panzer 1804
- Bembix tarsata Latreille 1809
- Bembix turca Dahlbom 1845
- Bembix wagleri Gistel 1857
- Bembix zonata Klug 1835
See also
[edit]- Bembix variabilis McCaffrey, S & Gibson, L 2009 It is an Australian native species that is a pest on hives of the native bee, Tetragonula carbonara
External links
[edit]- Hymis.de Photographs of Palearctic species.
- McCaffrey, S. & Gibson, L. (2009) Crabronid wasp - Bembix variabilis (Bembix variabilis) Updated on 2/27/2013 1:01:55 PM Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au.