''Caliadurgus'' is a genus of

spider wasp Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-ne ...

s of the subfamily

Pepsinae The Pepsinae are a subfamily of the spider wasp family, Pompilidae, including the tarantula hawks, as well as smaller species. Genera *''Ageniella'' Banks, 1912 *'' Allaporus'' Banks, 1933 *''Auplopus'' Spinola, 1841 250px, '' Auplopus carbona ...

. These are medium-sized black spider wasps with some red. They have a catholic habitat choice and their preferred prey are spiders of the families

Araneidae Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...

and

Tetragnathidae Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-se ...

. They have a

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and

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

distribution.

Taxonomy

The genus name ''Caliadurgus'' was proposed originally by Pate in 1946 as a replacement for a preoccupied name, ''Calicurgus'', published by Lepeletier in 1845. However, Pate explicitly selected ''Sphex hyalinata'' as the type species, while Kohl had selected ''Pompilus fasciatellus'' to be the type of Lepeletier's genus. Pate and others mistakenly thought that ''fasciatellus'' and ''hyalinata'' were the same species, but later researchers discovered that these were two different taxa, one now known as '' Caliadurgus fasciatellus'' and the other now known as '' Priocnemis hyalinata''. However, under the

ICZN The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its publisher, the I ...

, Article 67.8, the type species of a replacement name is the same as the type species of the name it replaces.

Selected species

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Caliadurgus cinereus ''Caliadurgus'' is a genus of spider wasps of the subfamily Pepsinae. These are medium-sized black spider wasps with some red. They have a catholic habitat choice and their preferred prey are spiders of the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae. ...

'' (Fox, 1897) *'' Caliadurgus fasciatellus'' (Spinola, 1808) *'' Caliadurgus gayii'' (Spinola, 1851) *'' Caliadurgus maculatellus'' (Taschenberg, 1869) *'' Caliadurgus modestus'' (Smith, 1873) *'' Caliadurgus ochraceus'' Roig Alsina, 1982 *'' Caliadurgus sigillipes'' (Taschenberg, 1869) *'' Caliadurgus subandinus'' Roig Alsina, 1982 *'' Caliadurgus ussuriensis'' (Gussakovskij, 1932)

References

Hymenoptera genera Pepsinae {{apocrita-stub