Lindenius
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Lindenius is a genus of digger wasps (Spheciformes) from the Crabronidae family. About 60 species are known worldwide, the main range is the Palearctic , where 47 species are native. There are 24 species in Europe, six also in Central Europe.
features
The small, dark-colored digger wasps have single-toothed mandibles and pointy eyes ( ocelli ) that lie in a wide, flattened triangle.
Way of life
The females of Central European species lay their nests in sandy, hard, flat ground. The nest entrance is characteristically expanded like a funnel by excavation. The nest entrance is not closed during the excursions, if the female flies to the nest with prey, it flies directly into the opening. At the end of a six to ten centimeter long tube, several cells are placed around the tube like grapes. Unusually for digger wasps, the brood is supplied with various flies , bugs and hymenoptera , especially wood wasps , brackish wasps and ants . Cicadas and tube aphids (Aphididae) are also rarely registered. Depending on the distribution area, the females of one and the same species usually only collect prey from one of the groups, but in overlapping areas they also collect from several prey groups. The prey is transported either in flight or on the ground by impaling it with the stinger or grabbing it with the middle legs. The rear legs are also used in flight.
Species (Europe)
- Lindenius abditus (Kohl, 1898)
- Lindenius aegyptius (Kohl, 1888)
- Lindenius albilabris (Fabricius, 1793)
- Lindenius cabrerae Leclercq, 1960
- Lindenius ceballosi Leclercq, 1959
- Lindenius effrenus (Kohl, 1915)
- Lindenius hamilcar (Kohl, 1899)
- Lindenius hannibal (Kohl, 1898)
- Lindenius Hasdrubal Beaumont, 1956
- Lindenius helleri (Kohl, 1915)
- Lindenius ibericus (Kohl, 1905)
- Lindenius ibex Kohl, 1883
- Lindenius laevis A. Costa, 1871
- Lindenius luteiventris (A. Morawitz, 1866)
- Lindenius major Beaumont, 1956
- Lindenius melinopus (cabbage, 1915)
- Lindenius merceti (Kohl, 1915)
- Lindenius mesopleuralis (F. Morawitz, 1890)
- Lindenius panzeri (Vander Linden, 1829)
- Lindenius parkanensis Zavadil, 1948
- Lindenius peninsularis (Kohl, 1915)
- Lindenius pygmaeus (Rossi, 1794)
- Lindenius sierrae Leclercq, 1989
- Lindenius subaeneus Lepeletier & Brulle, 1835
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Manfred Blösch: The digger wasps in Germany: way of life, behavior, distribution . 1st edition. Goecke & Evers, 2000, ISBN 3-931374-26-2 , pp. 276 f .
- ↑ Lindenius. Fauna Europaea, accessed July 23, 2010 .
literature
- Manfred Blösch: The digger wasps in Germany: way of life, behavior, distribution . 1st edition. Goecke & Evers, 2000, ISBN 3-931374-26-2 .