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Sceliphron, also known as black mud daubers or black mud-dauber wasps, is a genus of Hymenoptera of the Sphecidae family of wasps. They are solitary mud daubers and build nests made of mud. Nests are frequently constructed in shaded niches, often just inside of windows or vent openings, and it may take a female only a day to construct a cell ...
Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843 i c g b (blue mud wasps) Dynatus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845 i c g; Penepodium Menke in R. Bohart and Menke, 1976 i c g; Podium Fabricius, 1804 i c g b; Sceliphron Klug, 1801 i c g b; Trigonopsis Perty, 1833 i c g †Hoplisidia Cockerell, 1906 †Protosceliphron Antropov, 2014
Sceliphron laetum is a wasp in the family Sphecidae, the mud-dauber wasps. Like other members of this genus, it is a solitary species and builds cells out of mud in which to rear its young, provisioning them with paralysed spiders, and laying an egg in each. This wasp is native to Australia and southeastern Asia.
Mud dauber (or "mud wasp") is a name commonly applied to a number of wasps from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae which build their nests from mud; this excludes members of the family Vespidae (especially the subfamily Eumeninae), which are instead referred to as "potter wasps". Mud daubers are variable in appearance.
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In Trinidad, the two wasps S. asiaticum and S. fistularium have overlapping ranges; S. asiaticum tends to occupy drier areas with less forest cover. It also tends to form denser associations and the larvae are usually more heavily parasitised. [4] Wasps in the genus Sceliphron collect mud to make cells in which to lay their eggs. One or more ...
Page information; Cite this page; Get shortened URL; Download QR code; ... Sceliphron assimile is a species of thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae. [1] [2] [3 ...
Male platypuses have sharp spurs on their back legs shaped like a canine tooth. These hollow spurs measure 0.59 to 0.71 inches long and connect to crural glands in the animal’s upper thighs.