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Batozonellus
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Collections
- USNM, AM, OSUC
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Australia, Japan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pompilinae
- Image
- Batozonellus (126843775).jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Batozonellus
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- Transferred to ''Parabatozonus''
- Distribution and habitat
- References
Batozonellus is a genus of the spider hunting wasps (insects belonging to the family Pompilidae).
==Description== The species of the genus Batozonellus range from large to very large. Body is black and yellow. The compound eyes are large. Clypeus is short and broad. The wings are yellow. The tip of the forewing has a brownish band. The pterostigma is quite small. The tibiae have long spines. The females dig their nests in the ground and supply larvae with spiders of the family Araneidae.
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