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Sphecinae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Sphecidae

Taxonomy
Sphecinae was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. Its type is Sphex.

It was assigned to Sphegidae by Statz (1936); and to Sphecidae by Menke and Rasnitsyn (1987) and Pulawski (2014).

Subtaxa
Sphecini

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1802Sphecinae Latreille p. 331
1936Spheginae Statz p. 284
1987Sphecinae Menke and Rasnitsyn
2014Sphecinae Pulawski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
familySphecidae()
subfamilySphecinae
subfamilySphecinae

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.

Subfm. Sphecinae Latreille 1802
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Tr. Sphecini Latreille 1802
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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