Li, Tingjing;Li, Qiang
Pison
Sign in to savePison is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps within the family Crabronidae. The genus comprises 145 described species, although many species, especially in South America remain undescribed.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 882
- With media
- 81
- Family
- Crabronidae
- Collections
- EMEC, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), ZMUC, NMV, INHS, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil, Tanzania, Australia, French Polynesia, Costa Rica, Philippines, PolynéSie FrançAise
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Biology
- Species and other subtaxa
- Accepted species
- ''Pison'' nomina nuda
- Species previously in ''Pison''
- References
Pison is a cosmopolitan genus of wasps within the family Crabronidae. The genus comprises 145 described species, although many species, especially in South America remain undescribed.
==Distribution== The genus is found throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world, but does not extend into the more northerly temperate regions. Most species occur in the Southern Hemisphere, with a third of species occurring in Australia. This distribution pattern has been thought to indicate that the genus was once much larger, and has declined in the face of competition with more competitive wasp genera, leaving the genus largely concentrated in geographically-isolated regions.
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