sphecidae is a large and important family of hymenoptera. all members of this family are presocial predators of other arthropods and play a role in the control of pest complex. in this study, sphecids were collected from east azerbaijan province using sweep net, malaise traps and yellow pan traps. twenty species of the family sphecidae (hymenoptera), belonging to subfamilies pemphredoninae, ast...

The first checklist of the Peruvian Hymenoptera listed 1169 species and subspecies of aculeate wasps, including 173 species of Pompilidae, seven of Scoliidae, 39 of Sphecidae and 403 of Vespidae. Herein are reported 32 species as new for Peru based mainly on the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. The loss of the endemic status of two species is also reported: Entypus peruvianus (...

Die Verwendung von Kunststoffen wurde in jüngster Zeit für zahlreiche Bienenarten berichtet, die verwandten apoiden Wespen war dies bisher jedoch noch nicht dokumentiert. Hier berichten wir über ein Weibchen Isodontia elegans (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), das Plastikfasern aus einem Beutel mit Baumaterialien sammelte und dann mehrere Nester damit versiegelte.

The genus Sphex Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) is studied from India and key to Indian species provided. state-wise distributions of four are augmented here. A new synonymy proposed: zubaidiyacus Augul, 2013 = S. obscurus (Fabricius, 1804).

The importance of considering insects in the protection of biodiversity has been recently recognized. However, despite the importance of Spheciformes wasps (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae, Sphecidae and Crabronidae) in natural ecosystems and their potential as bioindicators, the Spheciformes communities in Portugal (part of the European biodiversity hotspot) have rarely been studied, and data for Por...