Priocnemis hyalinata is a large species of pepsine spider wasp.

Priocnemis hyalinata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Genus: Priocnemis
Species:
P. hyalinata
Binomial name
Priocnemis hyalinata
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
  • Sphex hyalinata Fabricius, 1793
  • Pompilus femoralis Dahlbom, 1829
  • Pseudagenia discrepans Costa, 1887
  • Priocnemis trifurcus Radoszkowski, 1888
  • Priocnemis vitripennis Verhoeff, 1892
  • Salius notatulus Saunders, 1896
  • Priocnemis pseudofemoralis Sustera, 1938
  • Priocnemis taigaica Wolf, 1967

Taxonomy

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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,[1] but later researchers discovered that these were two different taxa, one now known as Caliadurgus fasciatellus and the other now known as Priocnemis hyalinata.[2]

References

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  1. ^ V. S. L. Pate (1946) The generic names of the spider wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and their type species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) Transactions of the American Entomological Society 72:65-137
  2. ^ 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