Caliadurgus

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.[3] They have a Holarctic and Neotropical distribution.[4][5]

Caliadurgus
Caliadurgus fasciatellus female with Garden Spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Tribe: Pepsini
Genus: Caliadurgus
Pate, 1946 [1]
Type species
Sphex hyalinata

Species in the genus include:[6]

  • Caliadurgus cinereus (Fox, 1897)
  • Caliadurgus fasciatellus (Spinola, 1808) (=Caliadurgus hyalinatus (Fabricius, 1793))[7]
  • 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
  1. "Caliadurgus". Nic.funet.fi. 2004-01-29. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  2. 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.
  3. Bogdan Wisniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). of Poland Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, OCLC 751138831 (ISBN formally incorrect 83-60337-15-4).
  4. Wahis, R. & Rojas F. 2003 Los Pompilidos de Chile (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Rev. Chilena Ent. 29 89-103
  5. 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.
  6. "Global Names Index". Gni.globalnames.org. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  7. "Caliadurgus fasciatellus (Spinola, 1808)". The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2020-11-20.


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