kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Hymenoptera >
superfamily: Apoidea >
family: Sphecidae Latreille, 1802 >
subfamily: Sphecinae Latreille, 1802 >
tribe: Prionychini Bohart & Menke, 1963 >
genus: Prionyx Vander Linden, 1827 >
Middle America , North America