A synopsis of Central American and Caribbean Oxybelus (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

Authors

Richard M. Bohart, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

September 1993

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 7, No. 1 - 2. March - June, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Bohart.

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

The 37 recognized Oxybelus of Central America and the Caribbean are listed, a key given, and the critical thoracic projections figured for many of the species. New species are coloratus (Mexico), irwini (El Salvador), jamaicae (Jamaica), melanitus (Mexico), morrisoni (Puerto Rico), propodealis (Honduras), rhodopyga (Mexico), and romingeri (Hispaniola). New synonyms of mexicanus Robertson 1889 are frontalis Robertson 1889, bugabensis Cameron 1891, and longispina Cameron 1891.