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 alphabetically^[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 californicum (de Saussure, 1867) – blue mud dauber (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)^[4]
• 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. 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.