Liogorytes
Appearance
Liogorytes | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Crabronidae |
Subtribe: | Gorytina |
Genus: | Liogorytes R. Bohart, 1967 |
Type species | |
Liogorytes catarinae R. Bohart, 1967
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Species | |
11 described species |
The genus Liogorytes comprises a group of large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory South American wasps which hunt cicadas as prey. It is related to the more common genus of cicada killers, Sphecius.[citation needed]
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