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Sceliphron coromandelicum

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Species of insect

Sceliphron coromandelicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Genus: Sceliphron
Species: S. coromandelicum
Binomial name
Sceliphron coromandelicum
(Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Ammophila coromandelica(Casolari and Casolari Moreno, 1980)
  • Pelopaeus coromandelicus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845

Sceliphron coromandelicum is a species of solitary mud dauber wasp in the family Sphecidae. The female holotype was collected in Coromandel Coast, India.

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.

References

  1. "Sceliphron coromandelicum". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
  2. "Sceliphron" (PDF). Catalog of Sphecidae. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 August 2019.
  3. Snyman, Louwrens Pieter; Binoy, Chereekandy (2022-06-01). "Evolutionary relic or a curious coincidence? A mantisfly emerging from a mud-dauber nest". Evolutionary Ecology. 36 (3): 421–429. Bibcode:2022EvEco..36..421S. doi:10.1007/s10682-022-10167-8. ISSN 1573-8477 – via SpringerLink.
Taxon identifiers
Sceliphron coromandelicum
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