''Priocnemis hyalinata'' is a large species of pepsine

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 ...

Taxonomy

The genus name ''

Caliadurgus ''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 Tetragnathida ...

'' 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 ''Caliadurgus fasciatellus'' is a species of spider wasp from the subfamily Pepsinae found from Western Europe to the Far East of Asia. Taxonomy The name ''Caliadurgus'' was proposed originally by Pate in 1946 as a replacement for a preoccupied ...

'' and the other now known as ''Priocnemis hyalinata''.Else, G. R., Bolton, B., & Broad, G. R. (2016). Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - aculeates (Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea). Biodiversity data journal, (4), e8050. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8050

References

Pepsinae Hymenoptera of Europe Insects described in 1793 {{apocrita-stub