Bembicini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Crabronidae
Subfamilia: Bembicinae
Tribus: Bembicini
Subtribus: Argogorytina - Bembicina - Exeirina - Gorytina - Handlirschiina - Heliocausina - Stizina - Trichogorytina

Name

Bembicini Latreille, 1802
References

Nemkov, P.G.; Ohl, M. 2011: A cladistic analysis and reclassification of the tribe Bembicini (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae). Zootaxa, 2801: 27–47. Preview
Nemkov, P.G.; Pulawski, W.J. 2009: A cladistic analysis of Gorytina (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicini), with a reclassification of the subtribe. Zootaxa, 2069: 1–17. Abstract & excerpt

Vernacular names
English: Sand Wasps

The Bembicini, or sand wasps, are a large tribe of crabronid wasps, comprising 20 genera. Bembicines are predators on various groups of insects.[1] The type of prey captured tends to be rather consistent within each genus, with flies (Diptera) being the most common type of prey taken. Nests are typically short, simple burrows, with a single enlarged chamber at the bottom which is stocked with freshly paralysed prey items for the developing wasp larva; the egg may sometimes be laid before the chamber is completely stocked. It is common for numerous females to excavate nests within a small area where the soil is suitable, creating large and sometimes very dense nesting aggregations, which tend to attract various species of parasitic flies and wasps, many of which are cleptoparasites; in some cases, the sand wasps prey on their own parasites, a surprisingly rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom.[2] Although sand wasps are normally yellow and black, some are black and white with bright green eyes.
See also

Bembix rostrata

References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
Evans, Howard E. (2002). "A review of prey choice in bembicine sand wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)". Neotropical Entomology. 31 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1590/S1519-566X2002000100001.