Batozonellus

Batozonellus
Batozonellus lacerticida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Vespoidea
Family: Pompilidae
Subfamily: Pompilinae
Genus: Batozonellus
Arnold, 1937
Synonyms

Heteronyx Saussure, 1887 (preocc. Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville, 1831)

Batozonellus a genus of the spider hunting wasps (insects belonging to the family Pompilidae).[1]

Description

The species of the genus Batozonellus range from large to very large. Body is black and yellow. The compound eyes are large. Clypeus is short and broad. The wings are yellow. The tip of the forewing has a brownish band. The pterostigma is quite small. The tibiae have long spines. The females dig their nests in the ground and supply larvae with spiders of the family Araneidae.[2]

Species

Distribution and habitat

These wasps can be found in most of Europe.[4] They colonize predominantly open habitats and forest edges.

References

  1. ↑ Biolib
  2. ↑ Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, OCLC 751138831.
  3. ↑ NCBI
  4. ↑ Fauna europaea


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