A Review of the Genus Chlorion Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) from the Indian Subcontinent

Latrielle (1802) erected the genus Chlorion (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) based on the type species Sphex lobatus Fabricius, 1775. This is a widely distributed genus all over the world except Australia and Europe (Bohart & Menke, 1976). Twenty species with additional three subspecies are recorded under this genus worldwide (Pulawski, 2009) of which three species namely Chlorion lobatum (Fabricius, 1775), C. regale Smith, 1873 and C. splendidum Fabricius, 1804 are recorded from the Indian subcontinent. In this paper, the genus Chlorion is reviewed with several new distributional records.