# Liogorytes

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{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}
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| taxon = Liogorytes
| authority = R. Bohart, 1967
| type_species = ''[Liogorytes catarinae](/source/Liogorytes_catarinae)''
| type_species_authority = R. Bohart, 1967
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 11 described species
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The genus '''''Liogorytes''''' comprises a group of large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory [South America](/source/South_America)n [wasp](/source/wasp)s which hunt [cicada](/source/cicada)s as prey. It is related to the more common genus of cicada killers, ''[Sphecius](/source/Sphecius)''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bohart |first1=Richard M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FExMjuRhjpIC |title=Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision |last2=Bohart |first2=Richard Mitchell |last3=Menke |first3=Arnold S. |date=1976-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-02318-5 |pages=516–517 |language=en}}</ref>

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Category:Bembicidae
Category:Apoidea genera
Category:Hymenoptera of South America

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