Caliadurgus is a genus of spider wasps of the subfamily Pepsinae. These are medium-sized black spider wasps with some red. They have a catholic habitat choice and their preferred prey are spiders of the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.[1] They have a Holarctic and Neotropical distribution.[2][3]
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| Caliadurgus fasciatellus female with Garden Spider | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Subfamily: | Pepsinae |
| Genus: | Caliadurgus Pate, 1946 |
| Type species | |
| Pompilus fasciatellus Spinola, 1808
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Taxonomy edit
The genus name Caliadurgus was proposed originally by Pate in 1946 as a replacement for a preoccupied name, Calicurgus, published by Lepeletier in 1845. However, Pate explicitly selected Sphex hyalinata as the type species, while Kohl had selected Pompilus fasciatellus to be the type of Lepeletier's genus. Pate and others mistakenly thought that fasciatellus and hyalinata were the same species,[4] but later researchers discovered that these were two different taxa, one now known as Caliadurgus fasciatellus and the other now known as Priocnemis hyalinata.[5] However, under the ICZN, Article 67.8, the type species of a replacement name is the same as the type species of the name it replaces.[6]
Selected species edit
- Caliadurgus cinereus (Fox, 1897)
- Caliadurgus fasciatellus (Spinola, 1808)
- Caliadurgus gayii (Spinola, 1851)
- Caliadurgus maculatellus (Taschenberg, 1869)
- Caliadurgus modestus (Smith, 1873)
- Caliadurgus ochraceus Roig Alsina, 1982
- Caliadurgus sigillipes (Taschenberg, 1869)
- Caliadurgus subandinus Roig Alsina, 1982
- Caliadurgus ussuriensis (Gussakovskij, 1932)
References edit
- ^ Bogdan Wisniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). of Poland Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, OCLC 751138831 (ISBN formally incorrect 83-60337-15-4).
- ^ Wahis, R. & Rojas F. 2003 Los Pompilidos de Chile (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Rev. Chilena Ent. 29 89-103
- ^ Loktionov,V. M. & Lelej, A. S. 2012 New Distributional Date On the Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) from the Russian Far East. Far Eastern Entomologist. 244 10-12.
- ^ 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 72:65-137
- ^ Else, G. R., Bolton, B., & Broad, G. R. (2016). Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - aculeates (Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea). Biodiversity data journal, (4), e8050. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8050
- ^ "The Code Online | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature".
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