Liogorytes

The genus Liogorytes comprises a group of large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory South American wasps which hunt cicadas as prey. It is related to the more common genus of cicada killers, Sphecius.[1]

Liogorytes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Crabronidae
Subtribe: Gorytina
Genus: Liogorytes
R. Bohart, 1967
Type species
Liogorytes catarinae
R. Bohart, 1967
Species

11 described species

References

  1. Bohart, Richard M.; Bohart, Richard Mitchell; Menke, Arnold S. (1976-01-01). Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision. University of California Press. pp. 516–517. ISBN 978-0-520-02318-5.


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