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Cyphononyx Dahlbom

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Pompiloidea; Family: Pompilidae)

Cyphononyx Dahlbom, 1845.

 

 

Cyphononyx aeneipennis Lucas, 1898 (Gold Coast, Malawi, Northern Territories, Zimbabwe)

Cyphononyx anguliferus Lucas, 1897 (Ethiopia, Tanzania)

Cyphononyx antarctica (Linnaeus, 1767) (Yemen)

Cyphononyx antennatus Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

 

Cyphononyx auropubens Arnold, 1932 (Sierra Leone)

Cyphononyx basalis Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Cyphononyx bretonii Guérin, 1843 (Arabia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Yemen, Zaire)

 

Cyphononyx castaneus castaneus (Klug,  ) (Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen)

Cyphononyx castaneus simonyi Kohl, 1906 (Chad, Djibouti, Libya, Mali, Oman, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia, Yemen)

Cyphononyx croceicornis Er. 1844  (Arabia, Ethiopia, Southern Europe)

Cyphononyx decipiens Smith, 1855 (South Africa)

Cyphononyx dolosus Saussure,   (Madagascar)

Cyphononyx fatalis Gerstaecker, 1857 (Mozambique)

Cyphononyx flavicornis flavicornis Fabricius, 1781 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Cyphononyx flavicornis antennatus Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia)

Cyphononyx gowdeyi Turner, 1918 (Uganda) (extinct)

Cyphononyx grandidieri Saussure,   (Madagascar)

Cyphononyx marshalli Arnold, 1937 (Zimbabwe)

Cyphononyx nigrita Fabricius, 1781 (Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda)

Cyphononyx nyasicus Arnold, 1932 ( Malawi)

Cyphononyx obscurus Smith, 1855 (Malawi, South Africa)

Cyphononyx optimus Smith, 1855 (Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

 

Cyphononyx pan Arnold, 1932 (Uganda)

Cyphononyx promontorii Arnold, 1932 (South Africa)

Cyphononyx purpureipennis Arnold, 1948 (Zimbabwe)

Cyphononyx rathjensi Wahis, 2000 (Saudi Arabia, Yemen)

Cyphononyx umtaliensis Arnold, 1932 (Malawi, Zimbabwe)

Cyphononyx usambarensis Lucas, 1898 (Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar)

Cyphononyx species

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Females hunt a variety of spiders including Rain spiders (Palystes), which they paralyse and drag to a pre-excavated burrow or crack or crevice, where they lay an egg on the spider. On hatching the larva feeds on the preserved prey item.

Reference

 

Credits

Photographs © Felicity Grundlingh or © Duncan Butchart.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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