Batozonellus
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Batozonellus is a genus of the wasps (Pompilidae). Only one species occurs in Europe, Batozonellus lacerticida (Pallas, 1771).
features
The species of the genus Batozonellus are large to very large, black and yellow wasps. The head and large parts of the thorax are provided with two types of hair. Some are short, close-fitting and silky, the others are longer and erect. The propodeum has in addition to the long hair and a short, woolly fluff. The compound eyes are large and slightly divergent below. The convex face plate ( clypeus ) is short and wide. The propodeum is increasingly curved backwards. The wings are yellow. The tip of the forewings has a brownish band. The pterostigma is quite small. The splints ( tibiae ) have long spikes. The tarsal ridge is well developed in the females. The claws are elongated and bifid in the males, in the females it is those of the front legs, those of the middle and rear legs are toothed.
Way of life
The wasps predominantly colonize open habitats and forest edges. The females dig their nests in the ground. The larvae are supplied with spiders from the Araneidae family .
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Batozonellus in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved May 29, 2011
- ^ A b Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, ISBN 83-60337-15-4 .
literature
- Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, ISBN 83-60337-15-4 .