Pemphredon

Pemphredon
Pemphredon depicted in Edward Saunders Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands (figures 3, 4, 5)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Crabronidae
Genus: Pemphredon
Latreille , 1796

Pemphredon is a Holarctic and northern Oriental genus of medium sized solitary wasps belonging to the subtribe Pemphredonina. 37 species are recognized (6 Holarctic, 13 Palearctic, 11 Nearctic and 7 northern Oriental). The species are both similar and morphologically variable and it is often very difficult to distinguish them. Pemphredon are predatory.[1]

Species (Europe)

  • Pemphredon austriaca (Kohl 1888)
  • Pemphredon baltica Merisuo 1972
  • Pemphredon beaumonti Hellen 1955
  • Pemphredon flavistigma Thomson 1874
  • Pemphredon inornata Say 1824
  • Pemphredon lethifer (Shuckard 1837)
  • Pemphredon lugens Dahlbom 1842
  • Pemphredon lugubris (Fabricius 1793)
  • Pemphredon montana Dahlbom 1845
  • Pemphredon morio Vander Linden 1829
  • Pemphredon podagrica Chevrier 1870
  • Pemphredon rugifer (Dahlbom 1844) [2]

References

  1. Dollfuss, H. 1995. A worldwide revision of Pemphredon Latreille 1796 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 27:905–1019. online at Zobodat
  2. Fauna Europaea online
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