Ceropales
{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}
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| image = Ceropales fulvipes (40262657972).jpg
| image_caption = Ceropales fulvipes
| taxon = Ceropales
| authority = Latreille, 1796
| type_species = Ceropales maculata
| type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1775{{cite journal | author = V.S.L. Pate | year = 1946 | title = The Generic Names of the Spider Wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and Their Type Species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) | journal = Transactions of the American Entomological Society |volume = 72 | issue = 3 | pages = 65–137| jstor = 25077544 }}
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Ceropales is a genus of kleptoparasitic spider wasps from the sub-family Ceropalinae of the family Pompilidae. They are characterised by the taking of the spider prey of other solitary wasps, mainly Pompilidae but members of the Sphecidae that provision with spider prey are sometimes also hosts. In some languages their name translates into English as "cuckoo spider wasp".
Species
Species within Ceropales include{{cite web|url=http://www.waspweb.org/Vespoidea/Pompilidae/Ceropalinae/Ceropales/index.htm |title=Ceropales |access-date=2012-04-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230350/http://www.waspweb.org/Vespoidea/Pompilidae/Ceropalinae/Ceropales/index.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}{{Cite web | url=http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Ceropales | title=Ceropales -- Discover Life}}
- Ceropales africana Moczar, 1989
- Ceropales albicincta (Rossi, 1790)
- Ceropales bipunctata Say, 1824
- Ceropales brevicornis Patton, 1879
- Ceropales cubensis Cresson, 1865
- Ceropales elegans Cresson, 1872
- Ceropales femoralis Cresson, 1869
- Ceropales fulvipes Cresson, 1872
- Ceropales hatoda Brimley, 1928
- Ceropales karooensis Arnold, 1937
- Ceropales kriechbaumeri Magretti, 1884
- Ceropales latifasciatus Arnold, 1937
- Ceropales ligea Bingham 1903
- Ceropales longipes Smith, 1855
- Ceropales longisulcata Lu & Li, 2019{{cite journal | last1=Lu | first1=Hai-Xia | last2=Bashir | first2=Nawaz Haider | last3=Li | first3=Qiang | last4=Ma | first4=Li | title=Two new species of Ceropales (Ceropales) Latreille (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), with a key to species from China| journal=Zootaxa | publisher=Magnolia Press | volume=4551 | issue=2 | date=31 January 2019 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4551.2.5 | pages=211–220}}
- Ceropales maculata (Fabricius, 1775)
- Ceropales neomexicana Rohwer, 1915
- Ceropales nigripes Cresson, 1867
- Ceropales pacifica Townes, 1957
- Ceropales pictus Shuck, 1837
- Ceropales punctulatus Cameron, 1904
- Ceropales pygmaeus Kohl, 1879
- Ceropales robni Cresson, 1867
- Ceropales rugata Townes, 1957
- Ceropales scobiniferus Arnold, 1937
- Ceropales variegata (Fabricius, 1798)
- Ceropales variolosus Arnold, 1937
- Ceropales yunnanensis Lu & Li, 2019
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