Chalybion

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: Apoidea

Familia: Sphecidae
Tribus: Sceliphrini
Subtribus: Sceliphrina
Genus: Chalybion
Species: C. sulawesii
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Name

Chalybion Dahlbom, 1844

References

Ohl, M.; Höhn, P. 2011: Taxonomy, bionomics, and ecology of a new species of the blue mud-dauber wasp genus Chalybion from Sulawesi (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Zoosystematics and evolution, 87(2): 335–348. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.201100011

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they typically provision their brood cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron.[1]
Species

There are 49 described species of Chalybion:[2][3][4]

Chalybion accline (Kohl, 1918)
Chalybion ammophiloides Hensen, 1988
Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom, 1845) (Hawaii, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Socotra, South Africa; introduced in Italy[5])
Chalybion bocandei (Spinola, 1851)
Chalybion bocandei bocandei (Spinola, 1851) (Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierre Leone)
Chalybion bocandei aeronitens Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion bonneti Leclercq, 1966 (Madagascar)
Chalybion californicum (de Saussure, 1867) – blue mud dauber (North America; introduced in Croatia[6])
Chalybion clypeatum (Fairmaire, 1858) (Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion clypeatum clypeatum (Fairmaire, 1858)
Chalybion clypeatum lusingi (Leclercq, 1955) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion clypeatum kiloensis (Leclercq, 1955) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion dolichothorax (Kohl, 1918)
Chalybion fabricator (F. Smith, 1860)
Chalybion femoratum (Fabricius, 1781)[7]
Chalybion flebile (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845)
Chalybion frontale (Kohl, 1906)
Chalybion fuscum (Lepeletier, 1845) (Madagascar, Sri Lanka)
Chalybion gracile Hensen, 1988
Chalybion gredleri (Kohl, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion hainanense Terayama and Tano, 2018
Chalybion heinii (Kohl, 1906)
Chalybion incisum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion japonicum (Gribodo, 1880) (China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand)
Chalybion kenyae Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
Clalybion klapperichi (Balthasar, 1957)
Chalybion laevigatum (Kohl, 1888) (Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar)
Chalybion lividum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion madecassum (Gribodo, 1883) (Madagascar, Seychelles Islands)
Chalybion magnum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion malignum (Kohl, 1906)
Chalybion minos (de Beaumont, 1965)
Chalybion mochii Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
Chalybion ohli Dollfuss, 2016
Chalybion omissum (Kohl, 1889)
Chalybion parvulum Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
Chalybion petroleum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion planatum (Arnold, 1951) (Ethiopia)
Chalybion polyphemus Hensen, 1988
Chalybion ruficorne Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic)
Chalybion schulthessirechbergi (Kohl, 1918) (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion sommereni (R.Turner, 1920) (Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion spinolae (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845)
Chalybion spinolae spinolae (Lepeletier, 1845) (Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Chalybion spinolae rufopictum Magretti, 1884 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali)
Chalybion spinolae saussurei (Kohl, 1918) (South Africa)
Chalybion sulawesii Ohl and Höhn, 2011 [8]
Chalybion sumatranum (Kohl, 1884)
Chalybion tanvinhense Pham, Ohl, and Truong, 2019 g[9]
Chalybion tibiale (Fabricius, 1781) (South Africa)
Chalybion tomentosum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion triangulum Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Gambia, Togo)
Chalybion turanicum (Gussakovskij, 1935)
Chalybion vechti Hensen, 1988
Chalybion walteri (Kohl, 1889)
Chalybion yangi Li, 1995
Chalybion zimmermanni Dahlbom, 1843 (North America)

Data source: g = GBIF,[10]
References

Bohart, Richard; Menke, Arnold (1976). Sphecid Wasps of the World - A Generic Revision. pp. 98-103. ISBN 9780520023185.
Genus Chalybion, BugGuide
Classification and checklist of Afrotropical Sphecidae Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, WaspWeb
"Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
Maurizio Mei, Giorgio Pezzi, Remo De Togni, Umberto Devincenzo The oriental mud-dauber wasp Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom) introduced in Italy (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
Maurizio Mei, Ivo Boščík [1]
Josè Tormos, Carlo Polidori and Josep Daniel Asís (2006). "Description of the prepupa of Chalybion femoratum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), with comments on larval characters in the genus" (PDF). The Florida Entomologist. 89 (3): 388–390. doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2006)89[388:DOTPOC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4092437.
Ohl, Michael; Höhn, Patrick (2011-09-23). "Taxonomy, bionomics, and ecology of a new species of the blue mud-dauber wasp genus Chalybion from Sulawesi (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 87 (2): 335–348. doi:10.1002/zoos.201100011.
Pham, Phong Huy; Ohl, Michael; Truong, Lam Xuan (2019-12-19). "The genus Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) from Northwest Vietnam, with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4712 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.2.
"Chalybion tanvinhensis". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-07-28.