Superfamily SPHECOIDEA 1669 



Type-species: Crabro piibescens Shuckard. Desig. by Richards, 1935. 

 Dolkhocrabro Ashmead, 1899. Canad. Ent. 31: 216. 



Type-species: Dolkhocrabro Wkkhamii Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Acantlwcrabro Perkins, 1913. Ent. Soc. London, Trans., p. 391. N.. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Type-species: Crabro vagabmidus Panzer. Monotypic. 

 Crossocerits subg. Nothocrabro Pate, 1944 (1943). Lloydia 6: 314. N. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Type-species: Crabro nitidiventris Fox. Orig. desig. 

 Crossocenis subg. Stktoptila Pate, 1944 (1943). Lloydia 6: 315. N. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Type-species: Crabro confertus Fox. Orig. desig. 

 Crossocenis subg. Neoblepkaripiis Leclercq, 1968. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, Bui. 27: 98. N. syn. 

 (R. C. Miller). 



Type-species: Crossocenis (Neoblepharipiis) potosus Leclercq. Orig. desig. 

 Crossocenis subg. Feiitis Tsuneki, 1971. Etizenia 51: 13. N. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Type-species: Crossocenis (Fentis) quinquedentatus Tsuneki. Orig. desig. 

 Crossocenis subg. Bnunius Tsuneki, 1971. Etizenia 51: 15. N. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Type-species: Crossocenis {Bnunius) domkola Tsuneki. Orig. desig. 



These species nest in the soft pith of plant stems or twigs, or in decaying wood. Most species 

 make a series of linear cells separated by partitions of particles of the substrate. 



Revision: Pate, 1944 (1943). Lloydia 6: 290-312 (N. Amer. spp.). 

 annulipes annulipes (Lepeletier and Brulle). N. S. to B. C. south to Ga., Utah, Nev. and Calif.; 

 widely distributed in Palaearctic Region except Japan. Ecology: In North America nests 

 in rotting stumps and logs, and in old anobiid burrows in structural timber, stores 4-46 

 prey per cell. Prey: Alebra albostriella (Fall.), Riboutiana ? sp., Empoa ? sp., Empoasca 

 alboneiira Gill., E. bifurcata DeL., E. bipiinctata (Osh.), E. birdii Godg., E. erigeron 

 DeL., E.fabae Harr., E. gelbata DeL. and Dav., E. livingstoni Gill., E. maligna Walsh, 

 E. obtusa Walsh, E. patula DeL., E. pergandei Gill., E. solayia DeL., E. spp., 

 Edwardsiana rosae (L.), Typhlocyba gillettei Van D., T. pomaria McAtee, T. australis 

 Frogg., T. modesta Gibson, T. melite Mcatee, T. sp. or Ossiannilssonola sp., 

 Erythroneiira comes (Say), E. confinnata McAtee, E. dowelli Beamer, E. lawsoniana 

 Baker, E. tricincta Fitch, E. vulnerata Fitch, E. ziczac Walsh, E. lawsoni Rob., E. vitis 

 (Harr.), E. hartii (Gill.), E. magnacalx Beamer, E. elegans McAtee, E. rubra (Gill.), E. 

 albescens Beamer; adults are the preferred prey but some nymphs are stored; many 

 other leafhoppers are recorded as prey in Europe; Miridae sp.; Chironomidae sp. 

 Another subsp. occurs in Japan. 



Blepharipus annulipes Lepeletier and Brulle, 1834. Soc. Ent. France, Ann. 3: 729. 9. 



Crossocenis gonager Lepeletier and Brulle, 1834. Soc. Ent. France, Ann. 3: 785. 9. 



Crabro nigritus Gimmerthal, 1836. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, Bui. 9: 435. 



Crabro ambiguiis Dahlbom, 1842. Dispos. Method. Spec. Scand. Ins. Hym., p. 14. 9. 



Crabro (Crossocenis) capito Zeller, 1845. In Dahlbom, Hym Europaea, v. 1, p. 524. 



Blepharipus parkeri Banks, 1921. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 14: 17. 9. 



Crabro (Blepharipus) davidsoni Sandhouse, 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 1. 9, S. 



Taxonomy: Evans, 1957. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 83: 106, figs. 69-74 (larva). 



Biology: Davidson and Landis, 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 5-8, 3 figs, (nest, prey, life 



cycle). — Krombein, 1958. Biol. Soc. Wash., Proc. 71: 26 (nest, prey, life cycle). — Michener, 



1971. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 44: 405-407 (nest, prey). 

 barbipes (Dahlbom). Que. to B. C, Alaska, Yukon Terr, south to N. C, Tenn., and S. Dak., in 

 mts. to N. Mex. and Calif.; north. Palaearctic, Lapland and Holland to Japan. Ecology: 

 Nests in hole in wooden shingle and in twigs of Salix and Sambucus, and in dead 

 standing tree. Prey: Empoasca sp., possibly obtusa Walsh or patula DeL.; in Japan 

 preys upon small Diptera, storing 3-6 prey per cell. 



Crabro barbipes Dahlbom, 1845. Hym. Europaea, v. 1, p. 521. 6. 



Crabro ater Cresson, 1865. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 4: 477. 9. Preocc. N. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Crabro hirtipes Morawitz, 1866. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersburg, Bui. 9: 258. 6. 



Dolichocrabro Wickhamii Ashmead, 1899. Canad. Ent. 31: 215. 6. N. syn. (R. C. Miller). 



Dolichocrabro wickhami Ashmead, 1902. Wash. Acad. Sci., Proc. 4: 133. 6. Preocc. N. syn. 

 (R. C. MUler). 



