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Caliadurgus

{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Caliadurgus fasciatellus female with Garden Spider (24168265720).jpg

| image_caption = Caliadurgus fasciatellus female with Garden Spider

| taxon = Caliadurgus

| authority = Pate, 1946

| type_species = Pompilus fasciatellus

| type_species_authority = Spinola, 1808

| synonyms =

  • Calicurgus Lepeletier, 1845 (Preocc.)

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Caliadurgus is a genus of spider wasps of the subfamily Pepsinae. These are medium-sized black spider wasps with some red. They have a catholic habitat choice and their preferred prey are spiders of the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.Bogdan Wisniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). of Poland Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, {{oclc|751138831}} (ISBN formally incorrect 83-60337-15-4). They have a Holarctic and Neotropical distribution.Wahis, R. & Rojas F. 2003 Los Pompilidos de Chile (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Rev. Chilena Ent. 29 89-103Loktionov,V. M. & Lelej, A. S. 2012 New Distributional Date On the Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) from the Russian Far East. Far Eastern Entomologist. 244 10-12.

Taxonomy

The genus name Caliadurgus was proposed originally by Pate in 1946 as a replacement for a preoccupied name, Calicurgus, published by Lepeletier in 1845. However, Pate explicitly selected Sphex hyalinata as the type species, while Kohl had selected Pompilus fasciatellus to be the type of Lepeletier's genus. Pate and others mistakenly thought that fasciatellus and hyalinata were the same species,V. S. L. Pate (1946) The generic names of the spider wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and their type species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) Transactions of the American Entomological Society 72:65-137 but later researchers discovered that these were two different taxa, one now known as Caliadurgus fasciatellus and the other now known as Priocnemis hyalinata.Else, G. R., Bolton, B., & Broad, G. R. (2016). Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - aculeates (Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea). Biodiversity data journal, (4), e8050. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8050 However, under the ICZN, Article 67.8, the type species of a replacement name is the same as the type species of the name it replaces.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-code-online/|title=The Code Online | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature}}

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Category:Hymenoptera genera

Category:Pepsinae

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