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Spilomena Shuckard 1838

Creators

  • 1. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. kpgiris @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2121 - 0165
  • 2. Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala- 673635, India. binoy _ doz @ uoc. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4309 - 5460 & Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673001, India, Affiliated to University of Calicut.

Description

Genus Spilomena Shuckard, 1838

Celia Shuckard, 1837: 182. Type species: Celia troglodytes (Van der Linden, 1829) [= Stigmus troglodytes Van der Linden], by original designation and monotypy. Junior homonym of Celia Zimmermann, 1832.

Spilomena Shuckard, 1838: 79. Substitute name for Celia Shuckard, 1837.

Microglossa Rayment, 1930: 212. Type species: Microglossa longifrons Rayment, by original designation. Junior homonym of Microglossa Voight, 1831.

Microglossella Rayment, 1935: 634. Substitute name for Microglossa Rayment, 1930.

Taialia Tsuneki, 1971: 10. Type species: Taialia formosana Tsuneki, 1971, by original designation and monotypy. Synonymized with Spilomena by Bohart in Bohart and Menke 1976: 41.

Diagnosis. Occipital carina absent; hind wing media not diverging before Cu-a, not separated from Cu; fore wing with marginal cell elongate, longer than stigma, closed apically; two closed submarginal cells present; one recurrent vein and two discoidal cells present; stigma large; gaster without petiole; pronotal collar with complete transverse carina.

Biology. Members of this genus make their nests in twigs, timber, decayed wood and in buildings (Bohart & Menke 1976; Turillazzi et al. 2014). They prey on thrips, psyllids, coccids and aphids (Blüthgen 1953; Krombein 1956; de Beaumont 1964).

Distribution. In all zoogeographical realms (Pulawski 2021).

Notes

Published as part of Rajan, Tessy, Kumar, P. Girish, Sureshan, P. M. & Binoy, C., 2021, A review of the genus Spilomena Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with the description of six new species from India, pp. 263-276 in Zootaxa 5068 (2) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5704375

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA4074F366FF9DFF1689BBB06BE723

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.6 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5704375 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF83380CF367FF9CFF818861B311E371 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/6385D6D2-9442-4626-BA3C-65504B22CD24 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BA4074F366FF9DFF1689BBB06BE723 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/190304478 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/3511/taxon/03BA4074F366FF9DFF1689BBB06BE723.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Crabronidae
Genus
Spilomena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Shuckard
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Spilomena Shuckard, 1838 sec. Rajan, Kumar, Sureshan & Binoy, 2021

References

  • Shuckard, W. E. (1838) Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 2, 68 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1836. tb 00298. x
  • Shuckard, W. E. (1837) Essay on the indigenous fossorial Hymenoptera; comprising a description of all the British species of burrowing sand wasps contained in the metropolitan collections; with their habits as far as they have been observed. Richter and Co., London, 252 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 14263
  • Rayment, T. (1930) Microglossa and Melitribus, new genera of Australian bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, New Series, 42, 211 - 220.
  • Rayment, T. (1935) A cluster of bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E. F. Phillips, D. Ph., Cornell University, U. S. A. The Endavour Press, Sydney, 752 pp.
  • Tsuneki, K. (1971) Studies on the Formosan Sphecidae (XIII). A supplement to the subfamily Pemphredoninae (Hym.) with a key to the Formosan species. Etizenia, 57, 1 - 21.
  • Bohart, R. M. & Menke, A. S. (1976) Sphecid Wasps of the World. A generic revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 695 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1525 / 9780520309548
  • Turillazzi, S., Matthews, R. W., Pradella, D., Meucci, F. & Baracchi, D. (2014) Nest architecture and colony composition of communally nesting Spilomena socialis sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Pemphredoninae) from peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 41, 113 - 129. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / JHR. 41.8515
  • Bluthgen, P. (1953) Alte und neue palaarktische Spilomena - Arten (Hym. Sphecidae). Opuscula Entomologica, 18, 160 - 179.
  • Krombein, K. V. (1956) Biological and taxonomic notes on the wasps of Lost River State Park, West Virginia, with additions to the faunal list (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 58, 153 - 161.
  • Beaumont, J. de (1964) Insecta Helvetica Fauna 3. Hymenoptera: Sphecidae. Societe Entomologique Suisse, Lausanne, 169 pp.
  • Pulawski, W. J. (2021) Catalog of Sphecidae. Available from: http: // research. calacademy. org / ent / catalog _ sphecidae / (accessed 12 January 2021)