Ceropales

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Pompiloidea

Familia: Pompilidae
Subfamilia: Ceropalinae
Tribus: Ceropalini
Genus: Ceropales
Subgenera: Bifidoceropales - Ceropales - Hemiceropales
Overview of species

C. bipunctata – C. elegans – C. longipes – C. maculata – C. nigripes – C. pacifica – C. robinsonii – C. rugata
Name

Ceropales Latreille, 1797
Synonyms

Aceropales Moczar, 1969
Priesnerius Moczar, 1978

References
Primary references

Latreille, P.A. [1797]. Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. Prévôt, Paris [&] F. Bourdeaux, Brive. xiii + [1] + 201 + [7] pp. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Móczár L., 1994. Supplement to the revision of the genus Ceropales Latreille (Hymenoptera, Ceropalidae), II. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 40 (1): 51–63.

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Ceropales – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Ceropales – Taxon details on BugGuide.
Ceropales – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera (IRMNG).
Ceropales – Taxon details on Fauna Europaea.

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.[2] In some languages their name translates into English as "cuckoo spider wasp".
Species

Species within Ceropales include[3][4]

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[5]
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[5]

References

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 (3): 65–137. JSTOR 25077544.
Edwards R. & Broad G. (eds), 1998, Provisional Atlas for the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 2, NERC ISBN 1-870393-42-2
"Ceropales". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
"Ceropales -- Discover Life".
Lu, Hai-Xia; Bashir, Nawaz Haider; Li, Qiang; Ma, Li (31 January 2019). "Two new species of Ceropales (Ceropales) Latreille (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), with a key to species from China". Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 4551 (2): 211–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4551.2.5.