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Sphex
Taxonomy
Sphex was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Sphecidae, Sphecinae, Sphecini.
It was assigned to Aculeata by Scopoli (1763); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Harris (1780), Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Sphegimae by Latreille (1802); to Spheginae by Statz (1936); to Sphecidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Sphecini by Pulawski (2014).
It was assigned to Aculeata by Scopoli (1763); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Harris (1780), Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Sphegimae by Latreille (1802); to Spheginae by Statz (1936); to Sphecidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Sphecini by Pulawski (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Sphex Linnaeus p. 569 |
| 1761 | Sphex Linnaeus p. 411 |
| 1763 | Sphex Scopoli p. 290 |
| 1764 | Sphex Müller p. 72 |
| 1766 | Sphex Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Sphex Linnaeus p. 941 |
| 1770 | Sphex Drury |
| 1771 | Sphex Forster p. 85 |
| 1775 | Sphex Fabricius p. 346 |
| 1776 | Sphex Müller p. 160 |
| 1780 | Sphex Harris p. 95 |
| 1796 | Sphex Latreille p. 115 |
| 1798 | Sphex Fabricius p. 211 |
| 1802 | Sphex Latreille p. 332 |
| 1936 | Sphex Statz p. 284 |
| 1992 | Sphex Carpenter |
| 2014 | Sphex Pulawski |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Sphex Linnaeus 1758
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†Sphex bischoffi Zeuner 1931
†Sphex gigantea Heer 1867
†Sphex obscura Statz 1936
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||