The Nyssonini are a group of
cleptoparasitic bembicine wasps generally distinguished by the petiolate second submarginal cell of the forewing and rather strongly sculptured head and
mesosoma
The mesosoma is the middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma. It bears the legs, and, in the case of winged insects, the wings.
In hymenopterans of t ...
(a common trait in cleptoparasitic wasps). Most species also bear sharp propodeal projections and spiny hind
tibia
The tibia (; ), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it conn ...
e.
There are ~230 spp. in 17 genera worldwide.
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Crabronidae
Hymenoptera tribes
Biological pest control wasps
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