Podalonia

Podalonia
Podalonia species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Subfamily: Ammophilinae
Genus: Podalonia
Fernald, 1927
Type species
Podalonia violaceipennis
(Lepeletier, 1845)

Podalonia is a genus of parasitoidal wasps in the family Sphecidae.

The genus is present worldwide with the exception of South America. These wasps are similar to the related sand wasp genus, Ammophila, but they have a much shorter petiole, and the abdomen is slightly stronger.

The females lay their nests in the sand. They normally incubate in large, hairless caterpillars of moths in the family Noctuidae.

Podalonia tydei (Le Guillou, 1841)

Species

This genus includes 67 described species:

References

  1. ↑ Biolib
  2. ↑ "Fauna europaea". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
  3. 1 2 Richard M. Bohart; Richard Mitchell Bohart; Arnold S. Menke (1 January 1976). Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-02318-5.
  4. ↑ Catalogue of life
  5. ↑ Pulawski, Wojciech J. (29 November 2024). "Sphex" (PDF). Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato. California Academy of Sciences. pp. 36–40. Retrieved 5 December 2024.