''Chlorion'' is a genus of
parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...
wasps in the family
Sphecidae
The Sphecidae are a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes Ammophilinae, sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps.
The name Sphecidae was formerly given to a much larger g ...
. Species have been recorded from the
Americas
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, Africa and tropical Asia through to Java;
[ they appear to prey mostly on ]Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – gras ...
n insects.
Species
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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lists:[Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Chlorion'' Latreille, 1802]
(retrieved 24 July 2024)''Chlorion''
BugGuide
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Chlorion aerarium'' Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasp
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Chlorion boharti''
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Chlorion consanguineum''
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Chlorion cyaneum''
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Chlorion funereum''
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Chlorion gratiosum''
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Chlorion hemiprasinum''
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Chlorion hemipyrrhum''
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Chlorion hirtum''
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Chlorion lobatum'' - type species (as ''
Sphex lobatus'' )
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Chlorion magnificum''
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Chlorion maxillosum'' – African cricket hunter wasp
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Chlorion migiurtinicum''
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Chlorion mirandum''
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Chlorion regale''
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Chlorion semenowi''
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Chlorion splendidum''
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Chlorion strandi''
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Chlorion striatum''
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Chlorion viridicoeruleum''
References
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Sphecidae
Apoidea genera
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille