Gorytini

Gorytini
Harpactus laevis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Crabronidae
Subfamily:	Bembicinae
Tribe:	Gorytini
Genera
Afrogorytes Allogorytes Ammatomus Argogorytes Aroliagorytes Arigorytes Austrogortyes Clitemnestra Eogorytes Epigorytes Exeirus Gorytes Handlirschia Hapalomellinus Harpactostigma Harpactus Hoplisoides Kohlia Leiogorytes Lestiphorus Leurogorytes Liogorytes Malaygorytes Megistommum Neogorytes Olgia Oryttus Paraphilanthus Psammaecius Psammaletes Pseudoplisus Pterygorytes Sagenista Saygorytes Sphecius Stenogorytes Stethogorytes Tanyoprymnus Tretogorytes Trichogorytes Xerogorytes

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 in the family Mellinidae.

References

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