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Group Description

A group of wasps which excavate tunnels either into wood or soil to then stuff a paralised host into such as Frog hoppers or Hoverflies which they then lay an egg onto.

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59 species:

• Scarce Cuckoo-spit Wasp (Argogorytes fargeii)
• Field Digger Wasp / Cuckoo-spit Wasp (Argogorytes mystaceus)
• Shieldbug Stalker (Astata boops)
• Grand Digger Wasp (Bembix rostrata)
• Sand Tailed Digger / Weevil Wolf (Wasp Cerceris arenaria)
• Four-banded Weevil-wasp / Estuarine Weevil Fox (Cerceris quadricincta)
• Five-banded Weevel-wasp (Cerceris quinquefasciata)
• Flange-faced Weevil Wasp (Cerceris ruficornis)
• Ornate Tailed Digger Wasp / Ornate Bee Fox (Cerceris rybyensis)
• Kingsdown Bee Fox (Cerceris sabulosa) Vagrant (not recorded since 1860)
• Slender Bodied Digger Wasp / Large Shield Wasp (Crabro cribrarius)
• Intermediate Shield Wasp (Crabro peltarius)
• Small Shield Wasp (Crabro scutellatus)
• Crossocerus (Crossocerus) Lepeletier & Brullé, 1835 sensu stricto. Distribution: 1 record.
• Crossocerus annulipes Native. Distribution: throughout.
• Crossocerus binotatus Native. Distribution: scattered throughout. x/
• Crossocerus capitosus Native. Distribution: throughout (scattered further North). //
• Crossocerus cetratus Native. Distribution: throughout England and Wales. //
• Crossocerus congener Colonist (1999). Distribution: around London. xx
• Blunt Tailed Digger Wasp (Crossocerus dimidiatus). Native. Distribution: throughout. x/
• Crossocerus distinguendus Native. Distribution: South (scattered further North). //
• Slender Digger Wasp (Crossocerus elongatulus) Native. 2 subsp: ssp. annulatus (0 records), ssp. elongatulus (0 records). British forms refer as: ssp. proximus, ssp. propinquus. Distribution: throughout. //
• Crossocerus exiguus Native. Distribution: South East England. x/
• White Mouthed Digger Wasp / Pinewood Boxhead Wasp (Crossocerus leucostomus) Native. Distribution: scattered throughout. x/
• Hairy-backed Boxhead Wasp (Crossocerus megacephalus) Native. Distribution: throughout. //
• Lesser Hairy-backed Boxhead Wasp (Crossocerus nigritus) Native. Distribution: throughout the South. //
• Crossocerus ovalis Native. Distribution: throughout South. //
• Crossocerus palmipes Native. Distribution: scattered - South. -/
• Trilobed Boxhead Wasp (Crossocerus podagricus) Native. Distribution: throughout South (up to Southern Scotland). //
• Crossocerus pullulus Vagrant. Distribution: 0 records. x/
• 4-Spotted Digger Wasp / Spine-headead Fly Fox (Crossocerus quadrimaculatus) Native. Distribution: throughout South (scattered North). /x
• Crossocerus styrius Native. Distribution: scattered - south. //
• Crossocerus tarsatus Native. Distribution: scattered throughout. //
• Wandering Boxhead Wasp (Crossocerus vagabundus) Native. Distribution: scattered in the South. -x
• Crossocerus varus Native. Distribution: throughout. //
• Crossocerus walkeri Native. Distribution: scattered throughout. //
• Wesmael's Digger Wasp (Crossocerus wesmaeli) Native. Distribution: widespread in the South. //
• Clay-crack Digger Wasp (Didineis lunicornis) Native. Distribution: scattered in the South. //
• Painted Digger Wasp (Dinetus pictus) Extinct Native on mainland (still exist on the Channel Islands) Distribution: Channel Islands.
• Diodontus insidiosus Native. Distribution: scattered in the South.
• Diodontus luperus Native. Distribution: scattered in the South.
• Minute Black Wasp (Diodontus minutus) Native. Distribution: scattered in the South.
• Melancholy Black Wasp / Gloomy Aphid Wasp (Diodontus tristis) Native. Distribution: scattered in the South.
• Small Shieldbug Stalker (Dryudella pinguis) Native. Distribution: scattered throughout the South (mainly coastal). *
• Ectemnius borealis Native. Distribution: South East.
• Golden-moustached Fly Fox (Ectemnius cavifrons) Native. Distribution: throughout (scattered in Scotland).
• Ridge-backed Fly Fox (Ectemnius cephalotes) Native. Distribution: throughout (up to Southern Scotland).
• Dark Fly Fox (Ectemnius continuus) Native. Distribution: throughout (up to Southern Scotland).
• Sharp-shouldered Fly Fox (Ectemnius dives) Colonist (possibly with timbre 1st record 1926). Distribution: scattered in the South.
• Ectemnius lapidarius Native. Distribution: throughout.
• Hogweed Fly Fox (Ectemnius lituratus) Native. Distribution: South - throughout.
• Bramble Fly Fox (Ectemnius rubicola) Native. Distribution: scattered in the South.
• Ectemnius ruficornis Native. Distribution: scattered throughout (up to Southern Scotland).
• Six-banded Fly Fox (Ectemnius sexcinctus) Native. Distribution: scattered throughout (up to Southern Scotland).
• Ectemnius quadricinctus Distribution: Distribution: 1 record.
• Entomognathus brevis Native. Distribution: South (following the Wash to the Severn).
• Broad-banded Hopper Wolf (Gorytes laticinctus) Native. Distribution: scattered in the South, mainly following the Wash to the Severn (spreading North).
• Four-banded Hopper Wolf / 4-Banded Digger Wasp (Gorytes quadrifasciatus) Native. Distribution: scattered throughout the South.
• Harpactus tumidus