Crabronidae Latreille, 1802
Biology
Predatory wasps, hunting Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Psocoptera.
Sources
Barthélémy, C. 2010. Preliminary observations on the nesting biology of Trypoxylon petiolatum Smith, 1858 (Crabronidae, Trypoxylini) in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Entomological Bulletin 2(1): 3–10.
Barthélémy, C. 2012. Nest trapping, a simple method for gathering information on life histories of solitary bees and wasps. Bionomics of 21 species of solitary aculeate in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Entomological Bulletin 4(1): 1–37.
Barthélémy C & Guénard B. 2025. An annotated and illustrated checklist of Hong Kong aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoid wasps; Pompilioidea; Scolioidea; Thynnoidea; Tiphioidea; Vespoidea; Chrysidoidea). Insecta Mundi 1115: 1–230.
Branstetter, M., Danforth, B., Pitts, J.P., Faircloth, B., Ward, Ph., Buffington, M., Gates, M., Kula, R., Brady, S. 2017. Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees. Current Biology 27. 1019–1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.027
Peters, R.S., Krogmann, L., Mayer, C., Donath, A., Gunkel, S., Meusemann, K., Kozlov, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Lanfear, R. & Diez, P.A. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera. Current Biology 27: 1013–1018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027
Sann, M., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Bank, S., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Bleidorn C & Ohl M. 2018. Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. BMC Evol Biol 18(71). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8