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Paracyphononyx Gribodo

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

Paracyphononyx Gribodo, 1884. Type species: Paracyphononyx melanicrus Gribodo, 1884.
 

Paracyphononyx affinis Haupt, 1929 (Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda)

Paracyphononyx africanus Rad., 1881 (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx capensis Arnold, 1959 (South Africa)

Paracyphononyx carinatus Rad., 1881 Angola, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx coloratus Haupt, 1929 (Cameroon)
Paracyphononyx difficilis Bischoff, 1913 (Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
 

Paracyphononyx diversipes Arnold, 1962 (Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx diversus Dahlbom, 1845 (Central and East Africa to South Africa, Yemen)

Paracyphononyx elliotti Saussure, ****  (Madagascar)

Paracyphononyx frustratus Smith, 1879 (South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx funebris Magretti, 1884 (Ethiopia)

Paracyphononyx gemellus Arnold, 1936 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx laboriosus Arnold, 1936 (Ethiopia, South Africa)

Paracyphononyx languidus Haupt, 1929 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx lukombensis Cameron, 1912 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia)

Paracyphononyx metemmensis Magretti, 1884 (Ghana, Mali, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Paracyphononyx mombassicus R. Luc., 1898 (Kenya)

Paracyphononyx montanus Arnold, 1960 (South Africa)

Paracyphononyx parallelus Haupt, 1929 (Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa)

Paracyphononyx petiolaris Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Paracyphononyx plutonis Banks, 1940 (Madagascar)

Paracyphononyx rotundinervis Cameron, 1910 (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda)
Paracyphononyx ruficrus Klug, 1834 (Asia Minor, Egypt, South Africa, Yemen, Zimbabwe)
  Paracyphononyx zonatus Illiger,1802 (Mali, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Distribution

 Worldwide.

Biology

 Prey on spiders in several families as koinobiont ectoparastoids of the host spider that recovers normal beahviour after being stung and having an egg laid on it.

References

Arnold, G. 1934. New African Hymenoptera No. 2. Occasional Papers of the Rhodesian Museum 3: 18-28.

Arnold, G. 1936. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian region. Part V. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 18: 73–12.

Arnold, G. 1937. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian region. Part VII. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19: 1-98.

Credits

Photographs © Alan Manson https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99063109 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73600078

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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