Chalybion

Chalybion
Chalybion japonicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Apoidea
Family:	Sphecidae
Genus:	Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843
Species
see text
Synonyms
Chalybium Agassiz, 1846 Hemichalybion Kohl, 1918

Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae.

Species

Listed alphaberically^[1][2][3]

• Chalybion accline (Kohl, 1918)
• Chalybion ammophiloides Hensen, 1988
• Chalybion bengalense (Dahlbom, 1845) (Hawaii, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Socotra, South Africa)
• Chalybion bocandei (Spinola, 1851)
• Chalybion bocandei bocandei Hensen, 1988 (Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierre Leone)
  • Chalybion bocandei aeronitens Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Chalybion bonneti Leclercq, 1966 (Madagascar)
• Chalybion californicus (de Saussure, 1867)^[4] – blue mud wasp (North America)
• Chalybion clypeatum (Fairmaire, 1858) (Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mozambique, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • 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)
• 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 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 madecassum (Gribodo, 1883) (Madagascar, Seychelles Islands)
• Chalybion lividum Hensen, 1988
• Chalybion magnum Hensen, 1988
• Chalybion malignum (Kohl, 1906)
• Chalybion minos (de Beaumont, 1965)
• Chalybion mochii Hensen, 1988 (Kenya)
• 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 sumatranum (Kohl, 1884)
• Chalybion tibiale (Fabricius, 1781) (South Africa)
• Chalybion triangulum Hensen, 1988 (Central African Republic, Gambia, Togo)
• Chalybion tomentosum Hensen, 1988
• Chalybion turanicum (Gussakovskij, 1935)
• Chalybion vechti Hensen, 1988
• Chalybion walteri (Kohl, 1889)
• Chalybion yangi Li, 1995
• Chalybion zimmermanni Dahlbom, 1843 (North America)

References

1. ^ Genus Chalybion, BugGuide
2. ^ Classification and checklist of Afrotropical Sphecidae, WaspWeb
3. ^ "Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=768250. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
4. ^ 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. http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe89p388.pdf.