Evagetes
Genus of wasps
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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.[1] Evagetes wasps are kleptoparasitic on other pompilid wasps, especially the genera Arachnospila, Anoplius, Episyron and Pompilus,[2] digging into their sealed burrows, eating the host egg and replacing it with an egg of its own.[3] 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.[4]
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| Spider Wasp, Evagetes ingenuus caught near the Dead River in Marquette County, Michigan. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Subfamily: | Pompilinae |
| Genus: | Evagetes Lepeletier, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Evagetes bicolor Lepeletier, 1845 | |
The type species was named by Lepeletier as Evagetes bicolor in 1845 but this has since been recognised as a synonym for E. dubius.[5]
Selected species
- Evagetes alamannicus (Bluthgen, 1944)
- Evagetes anatolicus Van der Smissen, 2003
- Evagetes baguenae Junco y Reyes, 1960
- Evagetes cabrerai (Junco y Reyes, 1944)
- Evagetes calefactus Evans, 1966
- Evagetes crassicornis (Shuckard, 1837)
- Evagetes daisetzusanus Ishikawa 1960
- Evagetes deiranbo Ishikawa 1960
- Evagetes dubius (Vander Linden, 1827)
- Evagetes elongatus (Lepeletier, 1845)
- Evagetes fatimaae Wolf, 1990
- Evagetes fabrei Van der Smissen, 2003
- Evagetes fortunatus Wolf, 1970
- Evagetes fortunatarum Wolf, 1980
- Evagetes gibbulus (Lepeletier, 1845)
- Evagetes gusenleitneri Wolf 1988
- Evagetes hyacinthinus Cresson 1867
- Evagetes iconionus Wolf, 1970
- Evagetes ingenuus Cresson 1867
- Evagetes implicatus Haupt, 1941
- Evagetes ishikawai Lelei 1995
- Evagetes juncoi Wolf, 1970
- Evagetes littoralis (Wesmael, 1851)
- Evagetes longispinosus Wolf, 1990
- Evagetes macswaini Evans 1957
- Evagetes magrettii (Kohl, 1886)
- Evagetes meriane Van der Smissen, 2003
- Evagetes mochii Priesner, 1955
- Evagetes mohave (Banks, 1933)
- Evagetes nasobema Wolf, 1970
- Evagetes nitidulus (Guerin, 1838)
- Evagetes orientalis Lelej & Loktiniov 2009
- Evagetes orichalceus (Saunders 1901)
- Evagetes padrinus (Viereck, 1903)
- Evagetes palmatus (Haupt, 1930)
- Evagetes parifomarvicus (Sustera, 1924)
- Evagetes parvus Cresson 1865
- Evagetes paulinus Wolf 1970
- Evagetes pectinipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Evagetes piechockii Wolf 1981
- Evagetes piliferus Van der Smissen, 2003
- Evagetes pilosellus (Wesmael, 1851)
- Evagetes pontomoravicus (Sustera, 1938)
- Evagetes proximus (Dahlbom, 1843)
- Evagetes pseudoleucopterus Wolf 1970
- Evagetes sabulosus Tournier, 1889
- Evagetes sahlbergi (Morawitz, 1893)
- Evagetes servillei Costa, 1882
- Evagetes siculus (Lepeletier, 1845)
- Evagetes subangulatus Banks 1919
- Evagetes subglaber (Haupt, 1941)
- Evagetes subnudus (Haupt, 1942)
- Evagetes taiwanus Tsuneki 1989
- Evagetes transbaicalicus Lelei 1995
- Evagetes trispinosus (Kohl, 1886)
- Evagetes tumidosus (Tournier, 1890)
- Evagetes tumidinus Wolf, 1970
- Evagetes yezoensis Ishikawa 1960
- Evagetes zonatus (Haupt 1930)