Chalybion

Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they typically provision their brood cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron.

Species

There are 49 described species of Chalybion:

Chalybion accline
Chalybion ammophiloides Hensen, 1988
Chalybion bengalense
Chalybion bocandei
* Chalybion bocandei bocandei
* Chalybion bocandei aeronitens Hensen, 1988
Chalybion bonneti Leclercq, 1966
Chalybion californicum – blue mud dauber
Chalybion clypeatum
* Chalybion clypeatum clypeatum
* Chalybion clypeatum lusingi
* Chalybion clypeatum kiloensis
Chalybion dolichothorax
Chalybion fabricator
Chalybion femoratum
Chalybion flebile
Chalybion frontale
Chalybion fuscum
Chalybion gracile Hensen, 1988
Chalybion gredleri
Chalybion hainanense Terayama and Tano, 2018
Chalybion heinii
Chalybion incisum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion japonicum
Chalybion kenyae Hensen, 1988
Clalybion klapperichi
Chalybion laevigatum
Chalybion lividum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion madecassum
Chalybion magnum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion malignum
Chalybion minos
Chalybion mochii Hensen, 1988
Chalybion ohli Dollfuss, 2016
Chalybion omissum
Chalybion parvulum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion petroleum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion planatum
Chalybion polyphemus Hensen, 1988
Chalybion ruficorne Hensen, 1988
Chalybion schulthessirechbergi
Chalybion sommereni
Chalybion spinolae
*Chalybion spinolae spinolae
* Chalybion spinolae rufopictum Magretti, 1884
* Chalybion spinolae saussurei
Chalybion sulawesii Ohl and Höhn, 2011
Chalybion sumatranum
Chalybion tanvinhense Pham, Ohl, and Truong, 2019^g
Chalybion tibiale
Chalybion tomentosum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion triangulum Hensen, 1988
Chalybion turanicum
Chalybion vechti Hensen, 1988
Chalybion walteri
Chalybion yangi Li, 1995
Chalybion zimmermanni Dahlbom, 1843

Data source: g = GBIF,