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Prionyx viduatus (Christ)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Sphecidae; Subfamily: Sphecinae; Tribe: Prionychini: Genus: Prionyx)

Sphex viduatus Christ, 1791

Enodia canescens Dahlbom, 1843
Priononyx zanoni Gribodo, 1926
Sphex granti W.F.Kirby, 1900
Sphex leuconotus F.Morawitz, 1890
Sphex micans Eversmann, 1849
Sphex perezi Berland, 1926
Sphex platynotus Matsumura, 1912
Sphex pubescens Fabricius, 1793
 

Classification


Specimens in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC)


Distribution

Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Namibia, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Somalia, Tanzania, Yemen.

Also Oriental region: India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; and Palaearctic region: Afghanistan, Algeria, Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara.

Biology

Prey on Grasshoppers (Acrididae). Nest in prey-existing burrows and provision with a single or multiple prey items.

References

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.

Links

CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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