The Stizini are a tribe of small to large-sized sand wasps, similar to those in the tribe

Bembicini The Bembicini, or sand wasps, are a large tribe of crabronid wasps, comprising 20 genera. Bembicines are predators on various groups of insects. The type of prey captured tends to be rather consistent within each genus, with flies (Diptera) bei ...

, distinguished primarily by features of wing venation. Members of the genus '' Stizus'' are large, and superficially resemble cicada-killer wasps (genus ''

Sphecius Cicada killer wasps (genus ''Sphecius'') are large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory wasps. They are so named because they hunt cicadas and provision their nests with them, after stinging and paralyzing them. Twenty-one species worldwide are ...

'', in the related tribe Gorytini), and members of the genus '' Stizoides'' are

cleptoparasite Kleptoparasitism (etymologically, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another. The strategy is evolutionarily stable when stealing is less costly than direct feeding, which can mean when foo ...

s in the nests of other Crabronids.

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