Stictia is a largely neotropical genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 30 species.[1][2]

Stictia
Stictia signata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Bembicidae
Subfamily: Bembicinae
Tribe: Bembicini
Subtribe: Bembicina
Genus: Stictia
Illiger, 1807
Stictia signata female lateral view
Stictia signata female head

List of species (selected)

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References

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  1. ^ Sheehan, William (1984). "Nesting Biology of the Sand Wasp Stictia heros (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Nyssoninae) in Costa Rica". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 57 (3): 377–386. ISSN 0022-8567. JSTOR 25084533.
  2. ^ Post, David C. (1981). "Observations on female nesting and male behavior of Stictia signata (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Brazil". Revista de Biología Tropical. 29 (1): 105–113. ISSN 2215-2075.