Chalybion
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| Chalybion japonicum | |
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| Chalybion sp. wasp reusing an old nest of Sceliphron sp. Note the different white material used to cap the cells | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Sphecidae |
| Subfamily: | Sceliphrinae |
| Genus: | Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843 |
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| Chalybion caifornicum (Saussure, 1867)
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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. 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
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- ^ Bohart, Richard; Menke, Arnold (1976). Sphecid Wasps of the World - A Generic Revision. pp. 98-103. ISBN 9780520023185.
- ^ Genus Chalybion, BugGuide
- ^ Classification and checklist of Afrotropical Sphecidae Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, WaspWeb
- ^ "Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
- ^ Maurizio Mei, Giorgio Pezzi, Remo De Togni, Umberto Devincenzo The oriental mud-dauber wasp Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom) introduced in Italy (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
- ^ Maurizio Mei, Ivo Boščík [1]
- ^ 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.