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]
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]
^Lelej, A.S. & Loktiniov, V.M. 2009 Review of the Evagetes crassicornis species-group (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), with description of new species Zootaxa2230: 42–50 ISSN 1175-5334.
^Bogdan Wiśniowski: Spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Poland. Ojców National Park, Ojców 2009,
ISBN83-60337-15-4.
^Day M.C (1979) Nomenclatural studies on the British Pompilidae (Hymenoptera); Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 38(1).
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