Cryptocheilus

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Cryptocheilus
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Cryptocheilus infumatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Tribe: Pepsini
Genus: Cryptocheilus
Panzer 1806
Type species
Sphex annulata
Fabricius, 1798 [1]
Synonyms
  • CalicurgusBrullé, 1833
  • CeratocnemisWolf, 1960
  • ChlorocheilusWolf, 1965

Cryptocheilus is a genus of spider wasps of the subfamily Pepsinae, found in the world's warmer regions. They vary in size from medium to large and are often strikingly coloured. The females construct multicellular nests in cavities, once built each cell is stocked with a spider, captured by the female. They are found in open habitats such as heaths, meadows and forest edges.

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There are 24 species of Cryptocheilus known from Europe, 6 from North America and 2 recently described from the Neotropics. [2]

Species

Selected species include [2]

Select species transferred to Heterodontonyx

The classic circumscription of Cryptocheilus was recovered as paraphyletic. Phylogenetic studies have thus split several Australasian species into Heterodontonyx , revived from synonymy under Cryptocheilus. [3] [4]

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. 1 2 Cambra R A & Wahis R 2005 New species of Cryptocheilus Panzer from Panama and Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae, Pepsinae) Notes fauniques de Gembloux56, 3-6
  3. ↑ Wahis, Raymond (2008). "Contribution à la connaissance des Pompilides d'Australie (Hymenoptera : Pompilidae) 2. Sur quelques spécimens récoltés par G. Else (Natural History Museum, London) avec descriptions de deux espèces nouvelles des genres Auplopus et Ctenostegus". Faunistic Entomology – Entomologie faunistique. 61 (1–2): 23–31. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
  4. ↑ Chavoshi Jolfaei, Mahin Sadat (2022). Molecular phylogeny, generic delineation, and historical biogeography of Cryptocheilus Panzer, 1806 and Heterodontonyx Haupt, 1935 with taxonomic revision of Australian species using mitochondrial genes, the ribosomal operon and UCE loci (Thesis). Australian National University. pp. i–xvi, 1–143. doi:10.25911/2RVQ-GH91.
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