Spilomena Shuckard, 1838

Rajan, Tessy, Kumar, P. Girish, Sureshan, P. M. & Binoy, C., 2021, A review of the genus Spilomena Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with the description of six new species from India, Zootaxa 5068 (2), pp. 263-276 : 264

Genus Spilomena Shuckard, 1838

Celia Shuckard, 1837: 182 . Type species: Celia troglodytes (Van der Linden, 1829) [= Stigmus troglodytes Van der Linden ], by original designation and monotypy. Junior homonym of Celia Zimmermann, 1832 .

Spilomena Shuckard, 1838: 79 . Substitute name for Celia Shuckard, 1837 .

Microglossa Rayment, 1930: 212 . Type species: Microglossa longifrons Rayment , by original designation. Junior homonym of Microglossa Voight, 1831 .

Microglossella Rayment, 1935: 634 . Substitute name for Microglossa Rayment, 1930 .

Taialia Tsuneki, 1971: 10 . Type species: Taialia formosana Tsuneki, 1971 , by original designation and monotypy. Synonymized with Spilomena by Bohart in Bohart and Menke 1976: 41.

Diagnosis. Occipital carina absent; hind wing media not diverging before Cu-a, not separated from Cu; fore wing with marginal cell elongate, longer than stigma, closed apically; two closed submarginal cells present; one recurrent vein and two discoidal cells present; stigma large; gaster without petiole; pronotal collar with complete transverse carina.

Biology. Members of this genus make their nests in twigs, timber, decayed wood and in buildings ( Bohart & Menke 1976; Turillazzi et al. 2014). They prey on thrips, psyllids, coccids and aphids ( Blüthgen 1953; Krombein 1956; de Beaumont 1964).

Distribution. In all zoogeographical realms ( Pulawski 2021).