Liogorytes

{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}

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| taxon = Liogorytes

| authority = R. Bohart, 1967

| type_species = Liogorytes catarinae

| type_species_authority = R. Bohart, 1967

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 11 described species

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The genus Liogorytes comprises a group of large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory South American wasps which hunt cicadas as prey. It is related to the more common genus of cicada killers, Sphecius.{{Cite book |last1=Bohart |first1=Richard M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FExMjuRhjpIC |title=Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision |last2=Bohart |first2=Richard Mitchell |last3=Menke |first3=Arnold S. |date=1976-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-02318-5 |pages=516–517 |language=en}}