Chalybion

Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae.

Chalybion
Chalybion japonicum
Chalybion sp. wasp reusing an old nest of Sceliphron sp. Note the different white material used to cap the cells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Subfamily: Sceliphrinae
Genus: Chalybion
Dahlbom, 1843
Type species
Chalybion caifornicum
(Saussure, 1867)
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Chalybium Agassiz, 1846
  • Hemichalybion Kohl, 1918

Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron.[1]

Species

Listed alphabetically[2][3][4]

  • Chalybion accline (Kohl, 1918)
  • Chalybion ammophiloides Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom, 1845) (Hawaii, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Socotra, South Africa; introduced in Italy[5])
  • Chalybion bocandei (Spinola, 1851)
  • Chalybion bocandei bocandei (Spinola, 1851) (Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierre Leone)
    • Chalybion bocandei aeronitens Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Chalybion bonneti Leclercq, 1966 (Madagascar)
  • Chalybion californicum (de Saussure, 1867) – blue mud dauber (North America; introduced in Croatia[6])
  • Chalybion clypeatum (Fairmaire, 1858) (Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
    • Chalybion clypeatum lusingi (Leclercq, 1955) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
    • Chalybion clypeatum kiloensis (Leclercq, 1955) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Chalybion dolichothorax (Kohl, 1918)
  • Chalybion fabricator (F. Smith, 1860)
  • Chalybion femoratum (Fabricius, 1781)[7]
  • Chalybion flebile (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845)
  • Chalybion frontale (Kohl, 1906)
  • Chalybion fuscum (Lepeletier, 1845) (Madagascar, Sri Lanka)
  • Chalybion gracile Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion gredleri (Kohl, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Chalybion heinii (Kohl, 1906)
  • Chalybion incisum Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion japonicum (Gribodo, 1880) (China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand)
  • Chalybion kenyae Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
  • Clalybion klapperichi (Balthasar, 1957)
  • Chalybion laevigatum (Kohl, 1888) (Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar)
  • Chalybion madecassum (Gribodo, 1883) (Madagascar, Seychelles Islands)
  • Chalybion lividum Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion magnum Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion malignum (Kohl, 1906)
  • Chalybion minos (de Beaumont, 1965)
  • Chalybion mochii Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
  • Chalybion omissum (Kohl, 1889)
  • Chalybion parvulum Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
  • Chalybion petroleum Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion planatum (Arnold, 1951) (Ethiopia)
  • Chalybion polyphemus Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion ruficorne Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic)
  • Chalybion schulthessirechbergi (Kohl, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Chalybion sommereni (R.Turner, 1920) (Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Chalybion spinolae (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845)
    • Chalybion spinolae spinolae (Lepeletier, 1845) (Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
    • Chalybion spinolae rufopictum Magretti, 1884 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali)
    • Chalybion spinolae saussurei (Kohl, 1918) (South Africa)
  • Chalybion sumatranum (Kohl, 1884)
  • Chalybion tibiale (Fabricius, 1781) (South Africa)
  • Chalybion triangulum Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Gambia, Togo)
  • Chalybion tomentosum Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion turanicum (Gussakovskij, 1935)
  • Chalybion vechti Hensen, 1988
  • Chalybion walteri (Kohl, 1889)
  • Chalybion yangi Li, 1995
  • Chalybion zimmermanni Dahlbom, 1843 (North America)

References
  1. Bohart, Richard; Menke, Arnold (1976). Sphecid Wasps of the World - A Generic Revision. pp. 98-103. ISBN 9780520023185.
  2. Genus Chalybion, BugGuide
  3. Classification and checklist of Afrotropical Sphecidae Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, WaspWeb
  4. "Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  5. Maurizio Mei, Giorgio Pezzi, Remo De Togni, Umberto Devincenzo The oriental mud-dauber wasp Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom) introduced in Italy (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
  6. Maurizio Mei, Ivo Boščík
  7. Josè Tormos, Carlo Polidori and Josep Daniel Asís (2006). "Description of the prepupa of Chalybion femoratum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), with comments on larval characters in the genus" (PDF). The Florida Entomologist. 89 (3): 388–390. doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2006)89[388:DOTPOC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4092437.
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