Aporus

Aporus
Systematics
Order :	Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)
Superfamily :	Vespoidea
Family :	Wasps (Pompilidae)
Subfamily :	Pompilinae
Genre :	Aporus
Scientific name
	Aporus
	Spinola , 1808

Aporus is a genus of the wasps (Pompilidae). There are five types in Europe.

features

The species of the genus Aporus are small to medium-sized, mainly black wasps. The front tergites are more or less red in the females. Your head is flattened and thin, the body is elongated. The head and thorax are closely covered with hair. The flattened frontal plate ( clypeus ) is short and wide. The apical edge is rounded. The labrum is covered by the front plate. The mandibles are strong and have two additional teeth. The antennae are shortened in both sexes, the scapus is laterally flattened in the females, in the males it is cylindrical. Both maxillary and labial palps are short. The pronotum is flattened dorsally and longer than the mesoscutum . The triangular scutellum is small. The metapostnotum is only visible from the side, dorsally it is covered by the metanotum. The propodeum is elongated and flattened dorsally. The thighs ( femora ) of the front legs are thickened in females, the tarsal limbs are shortened and have no tarsal crest. The claws are simply thorny. The spines of the rails ( tibia ) of the middle and rear legs are blackish. The wings are elongated, brownish tinted and have two submarginal cells.

Way of life

The wasps predominantly colonize open and sunny habitats. They don't dig their own nests, but rather paralyze spiders in their hiding place. The larva of the wasp develop at the bottom of the hiding place. Spiders of the Atypidae family are hunted .

Species (Europe)

Subgenus Aporus
- Aporus andradei Wolf, 1970
- Aporus bicolor Spinola, 1808
- Aporus pollux (Kohl, 1888)
- Aporus unicolor Spinola, 1808
Subgenus Planiceps
- Aporus planiceps (Latreille, 1809)

supporting documents

Individual evidence

↑ Aporus at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved May 29, 2011
^ ^A ^b Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, ISBN 83-60337-15-4 .

literature

Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, ISBN 83-60337-15-4 .

[www.faunaeur.org-1] Aporus at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved May 29, 2011

[Wisniowski-2] A ^b Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009, ISBN 83-60337-15-4 .