Ceropalinae

Subfamily of wasps

Ceropalinae
Ceropales spp
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Subfamily: Ceropalinae

The Ceropalinae are a subfamily of the Pompilidae, the spider wasps, containing two genera, whose members are kleptoparasitic on other solitary wasps which hunt spiders, mainly fellow members of the Pompilidae.

The two genera within the Ceropalinae are [1]

  • Ceropales Latreille, 1796
  • Irenangelus Schultz 1906

References

  1. ^ Kimsey L.S. & Wasbauer MS 2004 Revision of New World Species of the Cleptoparasitic Pompilid Genus Irenangelus Schulz (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77(4) 650-668
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