Genus Lestica Billberg, 1820

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• Lestica Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Stockholm : Typis Gadelianis 4 unnumbered + 138 pp. [In Latin] [107].

  Type species:

   Crabro subterraneus Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Rohwer, S.A. 1911. Two new names of sphecoid wasps. Psyche (Cambridge) 18: 153-155.
• Ceratocolus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. & Brullé, A. 1835. Monographie du genre Crabro, de la famille des Hyménoptères Fouisseurs. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3: 683-810 [dated 1834] [739].

  Type species:

   Crabro alatus Panzer, 1797 by subsequent designation, see Ashmead, W.H. 1899. Classification of the entomophilous wasps, or the superfamily Sphegoidea. The Canadian Entomologist 31: 145-155, 161-174, 212-225, 238-251 [170].
• Solenius Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. & Brullé, A. 1835. Monographie du genre Crabro, de la famille des Hyménoptères Fouisseurs. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3: 683-810 [dated 1834] [713].

  Type species:

   Solenius interruptus Lepeletier & Brullé, 1834 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1974. Opinion 1015. Solenius Lepeletier & Brullé, 1834 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): designation of a type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 31: 16-18.
• Thyreus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. & Brullé, A. 1835. Monographie du genre Crabro, de la famille des Hyménoptères Fouisseurs. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3: 683-810 [dated 1834] [761] [junior homonym; Thyreus Panzer, 1806 and Thyreus Swainson, 1821].

  Type species:

   Apis clypeata Schreber, 1759 by monotypy.
• Hypothyreus Ashmead, W.H. 1899. Classification of the entomophilous wasps, or the superfamily Sphegoidea. The Canadian Entomologist 31: 145-155, 161-174, 212-225, 238-251 [171].

  Type species:

   Crabro subterraneus Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.
• Clypeocrabro Richards, O.W. 1935. Notes on the nomenclature of the aculeate Hymenoptera, with special reference to British genera and species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 83: 143-176 [167] [replacement name; Thyreus Lepeletier and Brullé, 1835].
• Ptyx Pate, V.S.L. 1947. New pemphilidine wasps, with notes on previously described forms: II. (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Notulae Naturae, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 185: 1-14 [13].

  Type species:

   Crabro pluschtschevskyi Morawitz, 1891 by original designation.

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