Sceliphrinae

Sceliphrinae
Chalybion californicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Subfamily: Sceliphrinae
Ashmead, 1899
Tribes
  • Podiini de Saussure, 1892
  • Sceliphrini Ashmead, 1899
  • †Protosceliphrini Antropov, 2014

Sceliphrinae is a subfamily of thread-waisted wasps in the family Sphecidae.

Genera

There are six extant genera and two fossil genera belonging to the subfamily Sceliphrinae. There are 151 extant species and 4 fossil species of Sceliphrinae as follows:[1]

Tribe Podiini de Saussure, 1892

  • Dynatus Lepeletier, 1845 (3 spp.)
  • Penepodium Menke in R. Bohart and Menke, 1976 (22 spp.)
  • Podium Fabricius, 1804 (23 spp.)
  • Trigonopsis Perty, 1833 (16 spp.)

Tribe Sceliphrini Ashmead, 1899

  • Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843 (54 +1† spp.) - blue mud-dauber wasps
  • Sceliphron Klug, 1801 (33 +1† spp.) - black-and-yellow mud-dauber wasps
  • †Hoplisidia Cockerell, 1906 (1† sp.)

Tribe †Protosceliphrini Antropov, 2014

  • †Protosceliphron Antropov, 2014 (1† sp.)

References

  1. ↑ Pulawski, Wojciech J. (2003). "Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato". Catalog of Sphecidae. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
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