Bembicidae

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Bembicidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Bembicidae
Latreille, 1802 [1]
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Subfamily Bembicinae

Subfamily Nyssoninae

The Bembicidae comprise a large family of apoid wasps that includes over 80 genera and over 1800 species which have a worldwide distribution. They excavate nests in the soil, frequently in sandy soils, and store insects of several orders, for example Diptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera and Odonata in the burrows. Some species are kleptoparasites of other Bembicidae. [2] The different subgroups of Bembicidae are each quite distinctive, and rather well-defined, with clear morphological and behavioral differences between them. [2]

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Taxonomy and phylogeny

A few apoid wasp families, including bembicids, have a relatively complicated taxonomic history. They were originally a part of a single large family, the Sphecidae, then for many years treated as a separate family, before being placed back into a larger family, the Crabronidae. [2] Currently, they are treated as a family. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Sandor Christiano Buys (2012). "Bembicine wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae: Bembicini, except Gorytina) of Rio de Janeiro State (southeast Brazil): inventory of species and notes on biology". Biota Neotropica. 12 (3): 73–77. doi: 10.1590/S1676-06032012000300007 .
  2. 1 2 3 Howard Ensign Evans; Kevin M. O'Neill (2007). The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior . Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0674024625.
  3. ↑ Manuela Sann, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Christoph Mayer, Alexey Kozlov, Lars Podsiadlowski, Sarah Bank, Karen Meusemann, Bernhard Misof, Christoph Bleidorn and Michael Ohl (2018) Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:71. doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8


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