Gorytini
Harpactus laevis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Crabronidae
Subfamily: Bembicinae
Tribe: Gorytini
Genera

Gorytini is a large and morphologically very diverse group of hunting wasps distributed worldwide and particularly species-rich in tropical areas. Most species hunt various hemipterans, especially among the Auchenorrhyncha, which they sting, paralyze, and provision in underground nests as food for their larvae.

Taxonomy

The Catalog of Sphecidae doesn't recognise Gorytini as a tribe and instead places the genera in subtribes Exeirina, Gorytina, Handlirschina and Spheciina within tribe Bembicini.[1]

Trachogorytes is recognised as a synonym of Mellinus, a genus of crabronid wasps in subfamily Mellininae and tribe Mellinini

References

  1. Pulawski, Wojciech J. "Family-Group Names and Classification" (PDF). CATALOG OF SPHECIDAE. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 January 2023.


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