Sceliphron asiaticum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Buys, Sandor Christiano, 2022, An overview of cocoon morphology of Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), Journal of Natural History 55 (47 - 48), pp. 2935-2949 : 2938

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2022.2036843

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6351757

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3679ED36-FF9C-1149-FE5B-D8CE8CCBFD1F

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Plazi

scientific name

Sceliphron asiaticum (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Sceliphron asiaticum (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Description

Identical to that of S. fistularium .

Material examined

Brazil: Maranhão State: city of Alcântara, S .C. Buys and C .A. Andrade, 27 February 2001: one cocoon collected from a natural nest; Rio de Janeiro State: city of Rio de Janeiro ( Serra do Mendanha ): S . Buys , January 2000: six cocoons collected from natural nests .

Remarks

The cocoons of S. fistularium and of S. asiaticum are indistinguishable from one another and similar to those of other species of the genus illustrated in the literature, namely S. caementarium (Drury, 1773) ( Rau 1915) , S. spirifex (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Grandi 1961) and S. (Prosceliphron) curvatum (F. Smith, 1870) ( Gepp and Bregant 1986) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Sphecidae

Genus

Sceliphron

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