Oxybelus

{{Short description|Genus of wasps}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = 3575 Oxybelus lamellatus 600x430.jpg | image_caption = ''Oxybelus lamellatus'' | taxon = Oxybelus | authority = Latreille, 1797 }}

[[File:Oxybelus argentatus - 2015-06-25.webm|thumb|thumbtime=1:31.6|''Oxybelus argentatus'' carrying a stiletto fly (''Thereva'' sp.) into her nest.]] '''''Oxybelus''''' is a genus of wasps in the family Crabronidae, commonly known as '''"spiny digger wasps"'''.<ref name=Bohart1976>{{cite book|last1=Bohart|first1=Richard Mitchell|last2=Menke|first2=Arnold S.|title=Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FExMjuRhjpIC|year=1976|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02318-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FExMjuRhjpIC/page/n553 555]}}</ref> The species are found worldwide except in the Australasian realm. They are especially represented in the Palearctic. ''Oxybelus'' is the largest genus in Crabronidae, with 264 species known.<ref>[http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/entomology/entomology_resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/Genera/Oxybelus.pdf California Academy of Sciences Institute of Biodiversity pdf]</ref>

==Species (Europe)== Source <ref>Fauna Europaea</ref> *''Oxybelus argentatus'' Curtis 1833 *''Oxybelus aurantiacus'' Mocsary 1883 *''Oxybelus bipunctatus'' Olivier 1812 *''Oxybelus cocacolae'' P. Verhoeff 1968 *''Oxybelus diphyllus'' (A. Costa 1882) *''Oxybelus dissectus'' Dahlbom 1845 *''Oxybelus dusmeti'' Mingo Perez 1966 *''Oxybelus fischeri'' Spinola 1839 *''Oxybelus haemorrhoidalis'' Olivier 1812 *''Oxybelus hastatus'' Fabricius 1804 *''Oxybelus lamellatus'' Olivier 1811 *''Oxybelus latidens'' Gerstaecker 1867 *''Oxybelus latro'' Olivier 1812 *''Oxybelus lineatus'' (Fabricius 1787) *''Oxybelus maculipes'' F. Smith 1856 *''Oxybelus mandibularis'' Dahlbom 1845 *''Oxybelus mucronatus'' (Fabricius 1793) *''Oxybelus occitanicus'' Marquet 1896 *''Oxybelus polyacanthus'' A. Costa 1882 *''Oxybelus quatuordecimnotatus'' Jurine 1807 *''Oxybelus spectabilis'' Gerstaecker 1867 *''Oxybelus subspinosus'' Klug 1835 *''Oxybelus trispinosus'' (Fabricius 1787) *''Oxybelus uniglumis'' (Linnaeus 1758) *''Oxybelus variegatus'' Wesmael 1852

==See also== * List of Oxybelus species

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=192990 ''Oxybelus'' images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life *[http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/entomology/entomology_resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/Genera/ Catalog of Sphecidae California Academy of Sciences Institute of Biodiversity]

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