Ceropales

Ceropales
Ceropales fulvipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Pompilidae
Subfamily:	Ceropalinae
Genus:	Ceropales Latreille, 1796
Type species
Ceropales maculata Fabricius, 1775 [1]

Ceropales is a genus of kleptoparasitic spider wasps from the sub-family Ceropalinae of the family Pompilidae. They are characterised by the taking of the spider prey of other solitary wasps, mainly Pompilidae but members of the Sphecidae that provision with spider prey are sometimes also hosts. ^[2] In some languages their name translates into English as "cuckoo spider wasp".^{[ citation needed ]}

Species

Species within Ceropales include ^{[3] [4]}

• Ceropales africana Moczar, 1989
• Ceropales albicincta (Rossi, 1790)
• Ceropales bipunctata Say, 1824
• Ceropales brevicornis Patton, 1879
• Ceropales cubensis Cresson, 1865
• Ceropales elegans Cresson, 1872
• Ceropales femoralis Cresson, 1869
• Ceropales fulvipes Cresson, 1872
• Ceropales hatoda Brimley, 1928
• Ceropales karooensis Arnold, 1937
• Ceropales kriechbaumeri Magretti, 1884
• Ceropales latifasciatus Arnold, 1937
• Ceropales ligea Bingham 1903
• Ceropales longipes Smith, 1855
• Ceropales longisulcata Lu & Li, 2019 ^[5]
• Ceropales maculata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Ceropales neomexicana Rohwer, 1915
• Ceropales nigripes Cresson, 1867
• Ceropales pacifica Townes, 1957
• Ceropales pictus Shuck, 1837
• Ceropales punctulatus Cameron, 1904
• Ceropales pygmaeus Kohl, 1879
• Ceropales robni Cresson, 1867
• Ceropales rugata Townes, 1957
• Ceropales scobiniferus Arnold, 1937
• Ceropales variegata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Ceropales variolosus Arnold, 1937
• Ceropales yunnanensis Lu & Li, 2019 ^[5]

References

1. V.S.L. Pate (1946). "The Generic Names of the Spider Wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and Their Type Species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 72 (3): 65–137. JSTOR   25077544.
2. Edwards R. & Broad G. (eds), 1998, Provisional Atlas for the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 2, NERC ISBN   1-870393-42-2
3. "Ceropales". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
4. "Ceropales -- Discover Life".
5. Lu, Hai-Xia; Bashir, Nawaz Haider; Li, Qiang; Ma, Li (31 January 2019). "Two new species of Ceropales (Ceropales) Latreille (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), with a key to species from China". Zootaxa . 4551 (2). Magnolia Press: 211–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4551.2.5.