Bembicidae
Bembix sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Apoidea
Family:	Bembicidae Latreille, 1802[1]
Tribes
Subfamily Bembicinae Bembicini Heliocausini Subfamily Nyssoninae Alyssontini Nyssonini

The Bembicidae comprise a large family of apoid wasps that includes over 80 genera and over 1800 species which have a worldwide distribution. They excavate nests in the soil, frequently in sandy soils, and store insects of several orders, for example Diptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera and Odonata in the burrows. Some species are kleptoparasites of other Bembicidae.^[2] The different subgroups of Bembicidae are each quite distinctive, and rather well-defined, with clear morphological and behavioral differences between them.^[2]

Bembicids were originally a part of a single large family, the Sphecidae, then for many years were treated as a separate family, and recently have been placed back into a larger family, the Crabronidae.^[2]

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  Saygorytes phaleratus
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  Bembix sp. in its habitat, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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