Liogorytes
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Liogorytes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Crabronidae |
Tribe: | Gorytini |
Genus: | Liogorytes R. Bohart, 1967 |
Type species | |
R. Bohart, 1967
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Species | |
11 described species |
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.[citation needed]
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Categories:
- Crabronidae
- Apoidea genera
- Hymenoptera of South America
- Apoidea stubs