Pemphredon

Pemphredon
Pemphredon depicted in Edward Saunders Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands (figures 3, 4, 5)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Crabronidae
Genus: Pemphredon
Latreille , 1796

Pemphredon is a Holarctic and northern Oriental genus of medium sized solitary wasps belonging to the subtribe Pemphredonina. 37 species are recognized (6 Holarctic, 13 Palearctic,11 Nearctic and 7 northern Oriental). The species are both be similar and morphologically variable and it is oten very difficult to distinguishthem. Pemphredon are predatory.[1]

Species (Europe)

References

  1. Dollfuss, H. 1995. A worldwide revision of Pemphredon Latreille 1796 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 27:905–1019. online at Zobodat
  2. Fauna Europaea online
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