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Ammoplanellus Gussakovskij

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Ammoplanidae)

Ammoplanellus Gussakovskij, 1931. Type species: Ammoplanus chorasmius Gussakovskij, 1931, by original designation and monotypy (as subgenus of Ammoplanellus).

Pseudammoplanellus N. Smith, 2019: Type species: Ammoplanellus owensensis, by original designation and monotypy (as subgenus of Ammoplanellus).

Ammoplanellus aussi (Leclercq, 1959) (Namibia)

Ammoplanellus bezicus (Leclercq, 1959) (Namibia)

Ammoplanellus brevicornis (Arnold, 1945) (Madagascar)

Ammoplanellus chorasmius (Gussakovskij, 1931) (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

Ammoplanellus claripennis (Arnold, 1945) (Madagascar)

Ammoplanellus egregius (Arnold, 1945) (Madagascar)

Ammoplanellus hissaricus (Gussakovskij, 1952) (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan)

Ammoplanellus jucundus (Arnold, 1945) (Madagascar)

Ammoplanellus keralensis Tessy, Girish Kumar, and Sureshan, 2024 (India)

Ammoplanellus latiscapus (Leclercq, 1959) (South Africa)

Ammoplanellus leucofrons N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus maculifrons N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus madecassus (Kohl, 1909) (Madagascar)

Ammoplanellus montanus N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus nanus (Bouček and Gayubo, 2001) (France, Morocco, Portugal, Spain)

Ammoplanellus nsalus N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus orientalis (Arnold, 1945) (Madagascar)

Ammoplanellus owensensis N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus rhodesianus (Arnold, 1924) (Zimbabwe)

Ammoplanellus schlingeri N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus shestkovi (Gussakovskij, 1931) (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Turkey)

Ammoplanellus simplex (Gussakovskij, 1952) (Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates)

Ammoplanellus smithi Tessy, Girish Kumar, and Sureshan, 2024 (India)

Ammoplanellus umatilla (Pate, 1945) (Canada, USA)

Ammoplanellus utahensis N. Smith, 2019 (USA)

Ammoplanellus xila (Pate, 1945) (Canada, USA)

Distribution	Worldwide.
Biology	Females provision their nests with Homoptera, Thysanoptera or Collembola (Bohart & Menke, 1976).
References	Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. *Branstetter MG, Danforth BN, Pitts JP, Faircloth BC, Ward PS, Buffington ML, Gates MW, Kula RR, Brady SG. 2017. Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees. Current Biology* 27: 1019-1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.027 Brothers D.J. 1999*. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta* 28: 233–250. Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp. 279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp. Gadallah, NS. 2020. Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Apoidea (Spheciformes), Crabronidae. Zootaxa 4754(1): 20–73. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.6 Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014. Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. 320 pp. Pulawski, WJ. 2020. Family group names and classification. Sann M, Niehuis O, Peters R, Mayer C, Kozlov A, Podsiadlowski L, Bank S, Meusemann K, Misof B, Bleidorn C, Ohl M. 2018. Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8
Links	CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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