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Chalybion

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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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Subfamily: Sceliphrinae
Genus: Chalybion
Dahlbom, 1843
Type species
Chalybion californicum
(Saussure, 1867)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Chalybium Agassiz, 1846
  • Hemichalybion Kohl, 1918

Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they typically provision their brood cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron.[1]

Species

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There are 49 described species of Chalybion:[2][3][4]

Data source: g = GBIF,[10]

References

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  1. ^ Bohart, Richard; Menke, Arnold (1976). Sphecid Wasps of the World - A Generic Revision. University of California Press. 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". The Florida Entomologist. 89 (3): 388–390. doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2006)89[388:DOTPOC]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2434/769719. JSTOR 4092437.
  8. ^ Ohl, Michael; Höhn, Patrick (2011-09-23). "Taxonomy, bionomics, and ecology of a new species of the blue mud-dauber wasp genus Chalybion from Sulawesi (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 87 (2): 335–348. doi:10.1002/zoos.201100011.
  9. ^ Pham, Phong Huy; Ohl, Michael; Truong, Lam Xuan (2019-12-19). "The genus Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) from Northwest Vietnam, with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4712 (2): zootaxa.4712.2.2. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.2. PMID 32230684.
  10. ^ "Chalybion tanvinhensis". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-07-28.