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Evagetes

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Evagetes
Spider Wasp, Evagetes ingenuus caught near the Dead River in Marquette County, Michigan.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Subfamily: Pompilinae
Genus: Evagetes
Lepeletier, 1845
Type species
Evagetes bicolor
Lepeletier, 1845

Evagetes is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae. There are 72 described species, of which 58 are found in the Palaearctic region, 11 in the Nearctic region, with a few penetrating to the Afrotropical, Oriental and Neotropic regions.[1] Evagetes wasps are kleptoparasitic on other pompilid wasps, especially the genera Arachnospila, Anoplius, Episyron and Pompilus,[2] digging into their sealed burrows, eating the host egg and replacing it with an egg of its own.[3] Evagetes wasps are characterised by their very short antennae. Most are species are black with the base of the antennae rufous, several Evagetes species are very metallic bluish insects.[4]

The type species was named by Lepeletier as Evagetes bicolor in 1845 but this has since been recognised as a synonym for E. dubius.[5]

Selected species

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References

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  1. ^ Lelej, A.S. & Loktiniov, V.M. 2009 Review of the Evagetes crassicornis species-group (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), with description of new species Zootaxa 2230: 42–50 ISSN 1175-5334.
  2. ^ Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, ISBN 83-60337-15-4.
  3. ^ Early J. Lowland Heathland - Spider-hunting Wasps Nature Conservation Imaging http://www.natureconservationimaging.com/Pages/nature_conservation_imaging_heathland1_sh_wasps_Evagetes.htm
  4. ^ "AR Pompilids". Hr-rna.com. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
  5. ^ Day M.C (1979) Nomenclatural studies on the British Pompilidae (Hymenoptera); Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 38(1).

Bibliography

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  • Ishikawa R. 1960 On the genus Evagetes in Japan (Hymeoptera, Pompilidae) Insecta Matsumurana, 23(1)
  • Japoshvili, G., Karaca, I. & Wahis, R. 2011 A List of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) of Gölcük Natural Park Isparta, Turkey Mun. Ent. Zool. 6(1) 386-388
  • Kirpik, M.A. 2009 Faunistic study on Pompilidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) family in Ankara, Kirikkale, and Çankiri provinces African Journal of Biotechnology 8(2), pp. 316-318
  • Ebrahimi, E., Schmid-Egger, C. & Wahis, R, 2008 New records of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran, Linzer biol. Beitr. 40(2) 1435-1442
  • Wolf, H. 1990 Bemerkungen zu einigen Wegwespen-Arten (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) (5.) Linzer biol. Beitr 22(1) 247-285