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Evagetes
Sign in to saveEvagetes is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae. There are 72 described species, of which 58 are found in the Palaearctic region, 11 in the Nearctic region, with a few penetrating to the Afrotropical, Oriental and Neotropic regions. Evagetes wasps are kleptoparasitic on other pompilid wasps, especially the genera Arachnospila, Anoplius, Episyron and Pompilus, digging into their sealed burrows, eating the host egg and replacing it with an egg of its own. Evagetes wasps are characterised by their very short antennae. Most are species are black with the base of the antennae rufous,
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 342
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Collections
- UTEP, MNA, TTU, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS, NAUF, NMSU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Canada
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- Parent taxon
- Pompilidae
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- Evagetes ingennus.jpg
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Evagetes is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae. There are 72 described species, of which 58 are found in the Palaearctic region, 11 in the Nearctic region, with a few penetrating to the Afrotropical, Oriental and Neotropic regions. Evagetes wasps are kleptoparasitic on other pompilid wasps, especially the genera Arachnospila, Anoplius, Episyron and Pompilus, digging into their sealed burrows, eating the host egg and replacing it with an egg of its own. Evagetes wasps are characterised by their very short antennae. Most are species are black with the base of the antennae rufous, several Evagetes species are very metallic bluish insects.
The type species was named by Lepeletier as Evagetes bicolor in 1845 but this has since been recognised as a synonym for E. dubius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Evagetes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.