Genus Argogorytes Ashmead, 1899

Argogorytes Ashmead, 1899: 324 . Type species: Gorytes carbonarius Smith, 1856, by original designation.

Archarpactus Pate, 1937: 10 . Type species: Sphex mystaceus Linnaeus, 1761, by original designation. Not available: not meeting any of the requirements of Article 13.1 of the Code (Bohart & Menke 1976: 52).

Malaygorytes Nemkov, 1999: 1 . Type species: Malaygorytes konishii Nemkov, 1999, by original designation and monotypy. Synonymized by Nemkov & Pulawski (2009: 11).

Diagnosis. Gt 1 sessile; omaulus well defined throughout, continued ventrally as long acetabular carina; hindwing media diverging more than 1 × midocellus diameter beyond cu-a at an obviously obtuse angle; propodeal enclosure rugose; spiracular groove present; frons narrower at level of midocellus than shortly below it; lateral margin of mesoscutum reflexed upward and not interrupted opposite of posterior part of tegula with oblique carina; submarginal cell II not petiolate, both recurrent veins received by submarginal cell II, distance between their ends more than one-third posterior length of submarginal cell I; male Gs 8 sword shaped, often exserted (Bohart & Menke 1976; Nemkov & Lelej 2013).

Distribution. All zoogeographical regions except sub-Saharan Africa (Bohart 2000; Pulawski 2020).