Abstract

HORTA-VEGA, Jorge Víctor et al. Crabronidae (Hymenoptera) from the locality Cañón del Novillo, Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Acta Zool. Mex [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.2, pp.376-387. ISSN 2448-8445.

A total of 67 species and 23 genera of Crabronidae (Hymenoptera) are recorded from 339 specimens collected in 2.3 ha of a spiny shrub located in "Cañón del Novillo" in Victoria, Tamaulipas, México. The high species richness and diversity index found for this group are comparable with the ones obtained for other hymenopteran taxa from the same locality. Ten new records for Crabronidae are reported for Tamaulipas, increasing to 128 the number of known species of this family of solitary wasps for this state.

Keywords : Crabronidae; Cañón del Novillo; solitary wasps; Tamaulipas.

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