This is the most common of our Oxybelus species.

See Symmorphus crassicornis for literature on this species.

Identification keys, distribution and general biology are given in Spradbery (1973), Richards (1980), Yeo and Corbet (1995), and Falk (1991).

See Symmorphus crassicornis for literature on this species.

The Embolemidae is a small family with 10-15 species worldwide. E. ruddii is the only species in Britain. Notes on identification may be found in Perkins (1976).

A medium-sized black pompilid. Most records of this species are old, suggesting a decline, or perhaps just elusiveness on the part of the wasp.

One of our largest pompilids, and until recently, regarded as one of our rarest.