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Sceliphron Klug
Sceliphron Klug, 1801 |
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Sceliphron
fistularium (Dahlbom, 1843) (Brazil, Colombia, Panama, South Africa)
Sceliphron fossuliferum
fossuliferum (Gribodo, 1895) (Angola,
Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Sceliphron fossuliferum complex Kohl, 1918
(Gabon, Tanzania)
Sceliphron fossuliferum voeltzkowii Kohl, 1909
(Angola, Kenya, Tanzania)
Sceliphron fuscum Klug, 1801 (Madagascar,
Mauritius, New Caledonia, Reunion, Seychelles)
Sceliphron leptogaster Cameron, 1905 (South
Africa) |
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Sceliphron quartinae (Gribodo, 1884)
(Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) |
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Sceliphron spirifex (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ethiopia,
France, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mozambique,
Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Toscana, Turkey,
Uganda) |
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Distribution |
Worldwide. |
Biology
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These wasps are Mud daubers building their
mud nests in a variety of sheltered situations including inside and
around houses. Females construct a nest comprising several adjacent
tubes made from mud. They prey on a variety of spiders and mass provision
the single
cells with an egg laid on the first spider. The cells may be covered
with an outer layer of mud providing extra protection to the developing
larvae (Bohart & Menke, 1976). |
References
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Bohart, R.M. &
Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a
Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and
evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and
Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.
Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp.
279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World:
an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture
Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
Gess SK, Gess FW 2014.
Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI
Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute,
Pretoria. 320 pp. |
Links
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CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE
sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences). |
Credits
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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums
of South Africa).
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