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, 1988Chalybion 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, 1988Chalybion gredleri Chalybion hainanense Terayama and Tano, 2018Chalybion heinii Chalybion incisum Hensen, 1988Chalybion japonicum Chalybion kenyae Hensen, 1988 Clalybion klapperichi Chalybion laevigatum Chalybion lividum Hensen, 1988Chalybion madecassum Chalybion magnum Hensen, 1988Chalybion malignum Chalybion minos Chalybion mochii Hensen, 1988 Chalybion ohli Dollfuss, 2016Chalybion omissum Chalybion parvulum Hensen, 1988 Chalybion petroleum Hensen, 1988Chalybion planatum Chalybion polyphemus Hensen, 1988Chalybion 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, 2011Chalybion sumatranum Chalybion tanvinhense Pham, Ohl, and Truong, 2019 gChalybion tibiale Chalybion tomentosum Hensen, 1988Chalybion triangulum Hensen, 1988 Chalybion turanicum Chalybion vechti Hensen, 1988Chalybion walteri Chalybion yangi Li, 1995Chalybion zimmermanni Dahlbom, 1843