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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Mud-nesting Spider Wasps (Ageniellini) » Auplopus » Auplopus carbonarius

Species Auplopus carbonarius

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References
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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 Ageniellini (Mud-nesting Spider Wasps)
Genus Auplopus
Species carbonarius (Auplopus carbonarius)
Explanation of Names
Auplopus carbonarius (Scopoli, 1763)
Size
Female: 10 mm. Male: 8 mm.
Range
Eastern United States, eastern Canada; native to south eastern England, central Europe and Scandinavia
Food
Larvae feed on spiders.
Life Cycle
Great versatility of nests: some in pre-existing holes in various situations, reports of nests under stones, in masonry, in tree stumps (often in old beetle burrows), under bark and in crevices of tree trunks, in empty galls of cynipid wasps. Also completed nests may consist of ten or more cells arranged in a block.
One brood a year.
Remarks
An introduced species, 1967 or earlier. A Palaearctic species according to Nolfo (1983) "Nests may have been brought into this country in nursery stock or wood products."
See Also
Phanagenia bombycina can be separated by hair on the propodeum (A. carbonarius has long errect hairs on the propodeum) or the shape of the hairs on the mentum:
Print References
Nolfo, S. (1983). Notes On Auplopus carbonarius, A Spider Wasp New To The United states. Entomological News, 94, 29–30. (Full Text Here)
Internet References
iNaturalist
GBIF
BOLD Systems
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Contributed by Nick Fensler on 13 August, 2007 - 10:13am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 3 August, 2024 - 2:18am

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