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Ctenocerus Dahlbom
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Pompiloidea; Family:
Pompilidae; Subfamily: Ctenocerinae)
Ctenocerus Dahlbom, 1845: 456. Type species: Ctenocerus klugi Dahlbom, 1845.
Clavelia Lucas, 1851: 418, 421. Synonymy by Arnold, 1934: 386.
Euclavelia Arnold, 1932: 112, figs 35–36. Type species: Micropteryx fasciatus Smith, 1851, original designation and monotypic. Synonymy by Shimizu, 2022. |
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Ctenocerus algoensis Arnold, 1932 (South
Africa) |
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Ctenocerus amplicornis Arnold, 1932 (South Africa) |
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Ctenocerus amplicollis Arnold, 1948 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Ctenocerus auranticornis Arnold, 1932
(Zimbabwe)
Ctenocerus bredoi Arnold, 1948 (Zambia)
Ctenocerus capensis Bischoff, 1913 (South
Africa)
Ctenocerus croceicornis Arnold, 1932 (Namibia, ?South
Africa) |
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Ctenocerus
fasciatus (Smith, 1851) (South
Africa) |
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Ctenocerus flavicaudus (Arnold, 1932) (Zimbabwe)
Ctenocerus fuscipennis Arnold, 1932 (South
Africa)
Ctenocerus gracilis Arnold,
1948 (Zambia)
Ctenocerus katangae Arnold, 1932 (Democratic
Republic of Congo)
Ctenocerus
klugi Dahlbom, 1845 (South
Africa)
Ctenocerus lacteipennis Arnold, 1932 (South
Africa)
Ctenocerus longicollis (Arnold, 1934) (South
Africa)
Ctenocerus modestus (Arnold, 1935) (Namibia)
Ctenocerus neavei Arnold,
1932 (Malawi)
Ctenocerus pannosicornis Arnold, 1932 (South
Africa)
Ctenocerus pennata Bischoff, 1913 (South Africa,
Zimbabwe) |
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Ctenocerus ramosus Smith, 1865 (South
Africa)
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Ctenocerus robustus (Arnold, 1932) (Malawi)
Ctenocerus robustus
kaputae Arnold, 1948 (Zambia)
Ctenocerus robustus vumbae Arnold, 1948 (Zimbabwe)
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Probably Ctenocerus fasciatus:
Pompilidae Andrew Deacon iNaturalist 11294212 b.jpg and Pompilidae Andrew Deacon inaturalist 11294212 c.jpg (CC0) by Andrew Deacon, posted at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11294212) |
Distribution
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Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa,
Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Also recorded from the Oriental region: Sri Lanka (Ctenocerus srilankae Shimizu, 2022). |
Biology |
Parasitoids of trap-door spiders (Arnold, 1932) |
References |
Arnold, G. 1932. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian
region. Part I. Subfamily Pepsinae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14:
284-396.
Arnold, G. 1932. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian
region. Part II. Subfamily Claveliinae, Haupt. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15: 41-122.
Arnold, G. 1935. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian
region. Part IV. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15: 413-483.
Shimizu, A., Broad, G., Yoshimura, J., & Pitts, J.P. 2022. First records of the spider wasps Ctenocerus Dahlbom and Paraclavelia Haupt from Asia, with discussions on the systematics of Ctenocerinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). European journal of taxonomy 845:101-131. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.845.1957.
Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects
in the Collection of the British Museuim. Part III. Mutillidae and
Pompilidae. London: 1-206, 6 pls.
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Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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