Crossocerus Lepeletier & Brullé, 1835:763

Amarante, Sérvio Túlio Pires, 2005, Addendum And Corrections To A Synonymic Catalog Of Neotropical Crabronidae And Sphecidae, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 45 (1), pp. 1-18 : 6

Genus Crossocerus Lepeletier & Brullé, 1835:763

[32 species and subspecies]

In his revision of New World Crossocerus Leclercq (2000) includes a classification for the subgenera that differs from that in Amarante (2002). Leclercq (2000) regarded Yuchiha Pate , Acanthocrabro Perkins and Neoblepharipus Leclercq as valid subgenera and Notocrabro Pate and Stictopila Pate as junior synonyms of Acanthocrabro Perkins. Also , the number of species listed was raised from 18 to 32 (24 in the neotropics).

Revision: Leclercq, 2000 c (New World spp.)

Subgenus: Crossocerus Lepeletier & Brullé, 1835:763 . Type species: Crabro scutatus Fabricius, 1787 [= Sphex palmipes Linnaeus, 1767 ], designated by Westwood, 1839:80. [15 species and subspecies] Stenocrabro Ashmead, 1899:216 . Type species: Crabro

planipes W. Fox, 1895 a, original designation. Synorhopalum Ashmead, 1899:218 . Type species:

Crabro decorus W. Fox, 1895 a, original designation. Ischnolynthus Holmberg, 1903:472 . Type species:

Ischnolynthus foveolatus Holmberg, 1903 [subspecies

of Crabro elongatulus Vander Linden, 1829 ], by

monotypy. cameroni Leclercq & Miller in Leclercq, 2000 c:36 – MEX. decorus decorus (W. Fox, 1895a) :200 [ Crabro ] – USA, MEX (Tropical Mexico), GUA. elongatulus foveolatus (Holmberg, 1903) :472 [ Ischnolynthus foveolatus Holmberg, 1903 ] – ARG (BA, ER, RN). eriogoni eriogoni (Rohwer, 1908b) :256 [ Crabro ] – USA, MEX (Tropical Mexico). jason (Cameron, 1891) :155 [ Crabro ] – MEX (Tropical Mexico). Crossocerus derivus Leclercq, 1968:68 . jasonoides Leclercq, 2000 c:47 – MEX (Tropical Mexico). mexicanus Leclercq & Miller in Leclercq, 2000 c:53 – MEX (Tropical Mexico). pseudomexicanus Leclercq & Miller in Leclercq, 2000 c:62 – MEX (Tropical Mexico). pueblensis Leclercq & Miller in Leclercq, 2000 c:62 – MEX. puertagarnicae Leclercq & Miller in Leclercq, 2000 c:63 – MEX. spinigeroides Leclercq & Miller in Leclercq, 2000 c:65 – MEX.