Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Suborder Apocrita Rank Tribe | Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenoptera Superfamily Apoidea | |
Similar Gorytini, Nyssonini, Bembecinus, Stizus, Bembicinae | ||
The Stizini are a tribe of small to large-sized sand wasps, similar to those in the tribe Bembicini, distinguished primarily by features of wing venation. Members of the genus Stizus are large, and superficially resemble cicada-killer wasps (genus Sphecius, in the related tribe Gorytini), and members of the genus Stizoides are cleptoparasites in the nests of other Crabronids.
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