{{Short description|Genus of wasps}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Bembix'' | image = Wasp July 2008-1.jpg | image_caption = ''Bembix oculata'' | taxon = Bembix | display_parents = 3 | authority = Fabricius, 1775 | type_species =''Bembix rostrata'' | type_species_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Bembix rostrata''<br> ''Bembix tarsata''<br> over 350 more species; see text }}
'''''Bembix''''' is a large cosmopolitan genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 380 species. thumb|left|Sand wasp in its habitat, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania thumb|''Bembix oculata'' female at her nest
== List of species (Europe) == * ''Bembix bicolor'' Radoszkowski 1877 * ''Bembix bidentata'' Vander Linden 1829 * ''Bembix cinctella'' Handlirsch 1893 * ''Bembix flavescens'' F. Smith 1856 * ''Bembix geneana'' A. Costa 1867 * ''Bembix megerlei'' Dahlbom 1845 * ''Bembix merceti'' J. Parker 1904 * ''Bembix oculata'' Panzer 1801 * ''Bembix olivacea'' Fabricius 1787 * ''Bembix pallida'' Radoszkowski 1877 * ''Bembix rostrata'' (Linnaeus 1758) * ''Bembix sinuata'' Panzer 1804 * ''Bembix tarsata'' Latreille 1809 * ''Bembix turca'' Dahlbom 1845 * ''Bembix wagleri'' Gistel 1857 * ''Bembix zonata'' Klug 1835
==See also== * List of Bembix species * ''Bembix variabilis'' McCaffrey, S & Gibson, L 2009 It is an Australian native species that is a pest on hives of the native bee, ''Tetragonula carbonara''
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721205306/http://www.hymis.info/fotos/pictures/list.php?tree=Aculeata.171.100&sub=yes&fam_level=2&tree_id=100&tree_status=plus&tree_seq=9 Hymis.de] Photographs of Palearctic species. * McCaffrey, S. & Gibson, L. (2009) Crabronid wasp - Bembix variabilis (Bembix variabilis) http://www.padil.gov.au {{Taxonbar|from=Q311557}}
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