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T H E GREAT BASBASINI1 naturalistnaturalist ale A VOLUME 57 ngN 3 JULY 1997 BRIGHAM YOUNG university GREAT BASIN naturalist editor assistant editor RICHARD W BAUMANN NATHAN M SMITH 290 MLBM 190 MLBM PO box 20200 PO box 26879 brigham youhgyoung university brigham young university provo UT 84602020084602 0200 provo UT 84602687984602 6879 8013785053801 378 5053 8017378801378668880173786688801 378 6688 FAX 8013783733801 378 3733 emailE mail nmshbllibyuedunmshbll1byuedu associate editors J R CALLAHAN PAUL C MARSH museum of southwestern biology university of tentercentergenter for environmental studies arizona new mexico albuquerque NM state university tempe AZ 85287 mailing address box 3140 hemet CA 92546 STANLEY D SMITH BRUCE D ESHELMAN department of biology department of Biologicbiologicalajlainaln sciences university of university of nevada las vegas wisconsin whitewawhitewaterwhitewayterten whitewater WI15353190190igo las vegas NV 89154400489154 4004 JEFFREY J JOHANSEN PAUL T TUELLER 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001736140017 3614 official publication date 31 july 1997 7977 97 750 22825 the great basin naturalist PUBLISHED AT PROVO UTAH BY BRIGHAM YOUNG university ISSN 001736140017 3614 VOLUME 57 31 JULY 1997 no3nonoa 3 great basin naturalist 573 0 1997 appp 189 197 SPIDER WASPS OF COLORADO hymenoptera pompilidae AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST howard E evanslevanelevans1 ABSTRACT one hundred forty three species of pompilidae are recorded from colorado slightly more than half the number occurring north of mexico some of these occur principally at higher altitudes or in the northern part of the state this group includes 5 species of holarctic distribution others such as the tarantula hawks pepsis are prevalent across the southern third of the state and range south into new mexico and often into mexico still others are widely distributed wherever there is friable soil suitable for nesting certain genera are more or less restricted to preying upon certain spider taxa while others are generalists and a few are cleptoparasites of other pompilidae key words hymenoptera pompilidae spider wasps distribution spider wasps are ubiquitous insects occur- 11 caught in a snow driftdriffdrife at 13000 feet 3900 m ring wherever there are spiders they use these on mt rogers clear creek county this indi- arthropods to provision their nests employing vidual was undoubtedly blown there by the a single paralyzed spider per cell in colorado wind they are most plentiful on the eastern plains most colorado species are believed to be especially in sandy country along the valleys univoltine the adults active mid june through of the arkansas and south platte rivers how- early september only I1 species anopliusAnoplius ever they also occur widely in the western tenebrotenebrosussus cresson is known to overwinter two thirds of the state including the moun- as an adult all others are believed to overwin- tains I1 have taken 61 species around my ter as diapausingdiapausing larvae or pupae in their nest home in open ponderosa pine douglas fir cells woodland at 2300 m in larimer county the in this report I1 list 143 species from colo- holarctic species anopliusAnoplius nigerrimus scopoli rado slightly more than half the species known has been taken above timberline at 3600 rn on to occur north of mexico only minimal data trail ridge in rocky mountain national park are included concerning habitat and behavior evans 1951 A female of anopliusAnoplius tenebrotenebrosussus evans and yoshimoto 1962 reviewed the cresson in good condition in the university nesting behavior of species occurring in the of colorado collection is labeled as having been northeastern states and many of these same department of entomology colorado state university fort collins CO 80523 189 190 GREAT BASIN naturalist volume 57 species and all genera occur in colorado the the largest spider wasp in our fauna and most recent catalog of north american hyme- one of the largest in the world is pepsis for- noptera krombeinKrombem et al 1979 includes further mosa say in which large females may have a references major papers on the systematics body length of 5 cm and a wing span of 9 cm of nearctic pompilidae are those of evans in contrast males of some of the smaller 1950 51 and townes 1957 although there species of ageniella have a body length of 2 have been several refinements in the classifi- mm with a wing span of about 3 mm cation in the decades since those papers were adult spider wasps of most species take published nectar at flowers and it is here that most are the colorado fauna includes 5 species that taken by collectors flowers with shallow also occur in eurasia these species range cocorollasrollas such as apiaceae umbelliferae are throughout the northern hemisphere and occur especially favored other genera that are fre- chiefly in the northern mountains Evageevagetestes quently visited include asclepias baccharis crassicorniscrassicrassicormscornis shuckardShucschuckardkard Ananophusadophusanopliusoplius nigernmusnigerrimus cleome euphorbia Mehmelilotuslotusiotus sapindus sol- scopoli arachnospilafumipennisarachnospila fumipenms zetterstedt idago and tamarixThmarix honeydew from extraflo- cahadurguscaliadurgusfasciatellusfascifasciatellusatellusatelius spinolaSpmolamoia and ceropalesCeropales ral nectaries and from aphids and other suck- maculata fabricius in contradistinction quite ing insects is also visited frequently especially a number of species characteristic of the deep on helianthus southwest and mexico enter colorado in the in this paper I1 accept the strictures of southernmost third of the state for example the menke 1990 though with misgivings as species ofofpepsisrepsisrupsispepsis and psorthaspis three species these result in the use of several unfamiliar have been reported only from montezuma names for well known species some of these novel county in extreme southwestern colorado synonymiessynonymicssynonymies are based on the discovery calopompilusCalopompilus pyrrhomelas walker priocneprocnepnocne by day 1977 of broken specimens with incor- locality mis fregonaoregona banks and apolusaporus luxus banks rect data that are claimed to represent recently several species characteristic of north american species others are based on the an unfor- eastern forests have appeared in colorado such rejection of secondary homonyms tunate procedure evidently part of the code as Priopriocnemispnocnermscnemis noratamiminoritaminorata banks and auplopusAuplopus now mellipesmelligesmellipes variharsatusvamtarsatus dalla torre similarly of zoological nomenclature I1 also accept the nomenclatural changes several typically west coast species have been taken here such as cryptocheilus hesperus suggested by shimizu 1994 based on his research and that of several european work- banks and diposondipogon seriserlseflsericeussericeoussenceusceus banks it is pos- ers most especially day 1981 arrangement sible that