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Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)

Actenopoda rileyi Ashmead, MS - Pate, 1946Pate, V.S.L. 1946. The generic names of the spider wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompiloidae) and their type species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 72:65-137.:69 ( listed as synonym of Actenopoda nigra (Cresson, 1867)).
Planiceps niger Cresson, 1867:136, ♀. 1 ♀, Georgia (Am. Ent. Soc. and E. Norton); 1 ♀, Connecticut (E. Norton). - Cresson, 1887Cresson, E.T. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, North of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society Supplementary Volume:1-350.:273 (listed); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:92 (listed). - As Actenopoda nigra: - As Aporus niger: - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157. (distribution), 89 (key female, key male), 92 (comb. nov., description female), 93 (description male); Krombein, 1963Krombein, K.V. 1963. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XVII. Annotated list of the wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethyloidea, Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76:255-280. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Kurczewski & Kurczewski, 1987Kurczewski, F.E. & E.J. Kurczewski 1987. Northern distribution records for some Nearctic Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Great Lakes Entomologist 20 (2):81-84. (distribution); Hook et al., 1990Hook, A.W., H.E. Evans & J.E. Gillaspy 1990. Pompilid wasps of Brackridge Field Laboratory and of the Greater Austin Area. Sphecos 20:17-18. (distribution); Kurczewski, 1999Kurczewski, F.E. 1999. Comparison of spider wasp faunas from two ecologically distinct sites in Erie County, Pennsylvania (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (4):339-360. (distribution), 346 (biology); Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8. (distribution); Leavengood et al., 2011Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8. (distribution).
Planiceps minor Fox, 1893:55, ♀. ♀, Southern Florida (leg. Robertson). - Schulz, 1906Schulz, W.A. 1906. Spolia Hymenopterologica. Junfermannsche Buchhandlung, Paderborn. 355 pp. (distribution); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:92 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1543 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)).
Planiceps dubius Fox, 1893:55, ♂. ♂, Southern Florida (leg. Robertson). - Schulz, 1906Schulz, W.A. 1906. Spolia Hymenopterologica. Junfermannsche Buchhandlung, Paderborn. 355 pp. (distribution); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:92 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1543 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)).
Pompilus clericus Dalla Torre, 1897:281, no descr. Replacement name for Planiceps niger Cresson, 1867 by Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:281 (nec Radoszkowsky, nec Tournier, nec Marquet). - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 281 (comb. nov.); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:92 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)). - As Planiceps clericus: - Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1543 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)).
Planiceps compressus Banks, 1917:99, ♀. Holotype ♀, Va.: Alexandria Co., near Court House (M. C. Z., 10,007, leg. Nathan Banks). - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:92 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1543 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)).
Aporus hermes Bradley, 1944:94, ♂♀. Allotype ♂, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 1917 (Cornell Univ., leg. W.T.M. Forbes); Holotype ♀, Glen Echo, Montgomery Co., Maryland (Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, leg. R.M. Fouts); Paratype 1 ♀, Montauk, Long Island, New York, July 25, 1931 (U. S. Nat. Mus.); Paratype 1 ♀, Cadet, Washington Co., Missouri (U. S. Nat. Mus., leg. Barlow); Paratype 1 ♂, Rosslyn, Fairfax Co., Virginia, H.H. Smith (U. S. Nat. Mus.). - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:89 (key female, key male); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1543 ( listed as synonym of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)).

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Area distribution map

map of Aporus niger (Cresson, 1867)

Distribution

CAN-OntCanada - Ontario
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-AKUnited States - Alaska
 (Bradley, 1944 [as Aporus hermes Bradley, 1944])
USA-CTUnited States - Connecticut
 (Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pompilus clericus Dalla Torre, 1897]; Bradley, 1944 needs confirmation)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Schulz, 1906 [as Planiceps minor Fox, 1893]; Schulz, 1906 [as Planiceps dubius Fox, 1893]; Bradley, 1944; Krombein et al., 1979; Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011; Leavengood et al., 2011)
USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
 (Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pompilus clericus Dalla Torre, 1897]; Bradley, 1944)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-KSUnited States - Kansas
 (Bradley, 1944)
USA-MAUnited States - Masachusettes
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-MDUnited States - Maryland
 (Bradley, 1944; Krombein, 1963)
USA-MOUnited States - Missouri
 (Bradley, 1944)
USA-NEUnited States - Nebraska
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-PAUnited States - Pennsylvania
 (Kurczewski & Kurczewski, 1987; Kurczewski, 1999)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Bradley, 1944; Krombein et al., 1979; Hook et al., 1990)
USA-VAUnited States - Virginia
 (Bradley, 1944)

Literature

  • Banks, N. 1917. New fossorial Hymenoptera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 61:97-116.
  • Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1867. Notes on the Pompilidæ of North America, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1 (1867/1868):85-150.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, North of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society Supplementary Volume:1-350.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.
  • Fox, W.J. 1893. New North American aculeate Hymenoptera. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour 1:53-56.
  • Hook, A.W., H.E. Evans & J.E. Gillaspy 1990. Pompilid wasps of Brackridge Field Laboratory and of the Greater Austin Area. Sphecos 20:17-18.
  • Krombein, K.V. 1963. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XVII. Annotated list of the wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethyloidea, Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76:255-280.
  • Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.
  • Kurczewski, F.E. 1999. Comparison of spider wasp faunas from two ecologically distinct sites in Erie County, Pennsylvania (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (4):339-360.
  • Kurczewski, F.E. & E.J. Kurczewski 1987. Northern distribution records for some Nearctic Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Great Lakes Entomologist 20 (2):81-84.
  • Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8.
  • Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8.
  • Pate, V.S.L. 1946. The generic names of the spider wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompiloidae) and their type species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 72:65-137.
  • Schulz, W.A. 1906. Spolia Hymenopterologica. Junfermannsche Buchhandlung, Paderborn. 355 pp.