Abstract
The genus Sphecozone O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 currently includes 34 species and has as type-species S. rubescens. With the exception of a North American species, S. magnipalpis Millidge, 1993, the genus occur only in the Neotropics. Recent studies involving cladistic analysis suggests the monophyly of the genus, which is supported by the loss of paracymbium and radical ridge, and the origin …