Species Cryptocheilus pallidipenne

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Works Cited

Spider Wasp - Cryptocheilus pallidipenne - female

Curated specimen from CAS collection - Cryptocheilus pallidipenne - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Pompiloidea (Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies)

Family Pompilidae (Spider Wasps)

Subfamily Pepsinae

Tribe Pepsini (Tarantula-hawk Wasps and Allies)

Genus Cryptocheilus

Species pallidipenne (Cryptocheilus pallidipenne)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Priocnemoides pallidipennis Banks, 1911

Identification

From the treatment in Townes(1):

Black. Body pubescence dark gray; flagellum orange, its first segment infuscate basally; wings orange-yellow, the apical 0.21 ± of the forewing and the apical margin of the hind wing fuscous.

Female: Forewing 8 to 10 mm. long; clypeus in side view rather strongly convex, in front view with the apex strongly and broadly arcuately concave; mandible (when not eroded) about 0.75 as long as the clypeus is wide, its apical tooth moderately broad.

Male: Forewing 8 to 9 mm. long; clypeus in front view with its apex moderately concave; median notch of sixth sternite deeply U-shaped; subgenital plate tongue-shaped, somewhat convex but without a median ridge; apical margin of subgenital plate with a fringe of short stout hairs.

Range

Oregon, California, Arizona, and New Mexico (Krombein(2))

Season

Adult collection records span from May to August.(1)

Remarks

You can read the original 1911 description by Banks at this link.

Works Cited

1.	Nearctic Wasps of the Subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae Henry K. Townes. 1957. Smithsonian Institute Press (Bulletin 209).

2.	Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.

Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 12 November, 2015 - 12:27am

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