Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Cryptocheilus severini

Cryptocheilus severini - 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 severini (Cryptocheilus severini)
Range
NM, AZ, s.CA(1)
Food
Larval host: Lycosidae (Tigrosa sp.?)(2)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.First host record for the spider wasp Cryptocheilus severini Banks (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae)
Frank E. Kurczewski, Rick C. West, James P. Pitts, & Cecilia Waichert. 2022. Insecta Mundi, 0935: 1-4.