Sceliphron coromandelicum

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| genus = Sceliphron

| species = coromandelicum

| authority = (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845)

| synonyms= *Ammophila coromandelica(Casolari and Casolari Moreno, 1980)

Pelopaeus coromandelicus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845

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Sceliphron coromandelicum is a species of solitary mud dauber wasp in the family Sphecidae.{{cite web|title=Sceliphron coromandelicum|url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/741651-Sceliphron-coromandelicum|access-date=2021-12-28|website=iNaturalist|language=en-US}} The female holotype was collected in Coromandel Coast, India.{{Cite web|title=Sceliphron|url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/entomology/entomology_resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/Genera/Sceliphron.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829222014/http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/entomology/entomology_resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/Genera/Sceliphron.pdf|archive-date=29 August 2019|website=Catalog of Sphecidae}}

Ecology

The females constructs mud nests which she provisions with spiders as a food source for the enclosed immatures. The spiders are generally Araneidae and in some cases terricolous Salticidae.{{Cite journal |last1=Snyman |first1=Louwrens Pieter |last2=Binoy |first2=Chereekandy |date=2022-06-01 |title=Evolutionary relic or a curious coincidence? A mantisfly emerging from a mud-dauber nest |url=https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-981697/v1 |journal=Evolutionary Ecology |language=en |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=421–429 |doi=10.1007/s10682-022-10167-8 |bibcode=2022EvEco..36..421S |issn=1573-8477 |via=SpringerLink}}

References

Category:Insects of India

Category:Insects described in 1845

Category:Sphecidae

Category:Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier