Curved wasp	Status LU: established. 1st record: 2011.
	Orientalesch Mauerharespel	Status Eur.: established.
	Pélopée courbée	RA: ISEIA: C1. Harmonia+: n/a.
	Orientalische Mauerwespe	Wikipedia: | Wikispecies: n/a (2017)
	Oosterse langsteelgraafwesp	Back to the list of invertebrates

Report the species

→ Report Sceliphron curvatum to the National Museum of Natural History.

Brief description

Sceliphron curvatum (F. Smith, 1870) is a species of hymenopteran insects, and more precisely a mason wasp, of the family Sphecidae. It is a species native to the mountainous regions of Asia, particularly the Himalayas, and has recently appeared in Europe (early 1980s). It is locally invasive, including in France in the South-East, where it could perhaps compete with native species (Wikipedia contributors 2019).

Status and distribution in Luxembourg

Sceliphron curvatum (F. Smith, 1870) was observed for the first time in Luxembourg on 15th July 2011 near Echternach (Schneider et al. 2014).

Three further observations in 2023 seem to indicate that the species is establishing in Luxembourg (MNHNL, iNaturalist & GBIF, 2023): 2023-07-22 in Soleuvre (Nico Pantaleoni on iNaturalist); observations of mud cells on window frames on 2023-08-09 and 2023-08-22 by Florence Felten-Ries in Bous/Erpeldange and Hollerich (Luxembourg city), each mud cell being provided with 20 to 25 spiders.

Risk assessment

ISEIA protocol

C1 (3+1+1+1) (Ries et al. 2017: 69).

Harmonia+ protocol

Overall risk score 0,00 = (Overall Invasion score 0,60 x Overall Impact score 0,00) (evaluated by Jennifer Cross, Svenja Christian and Roland Proess).

Worldwide distribution

Bibliography

• CABI, 2019. Sceliphron curvatum (F. Smith, 1870). In: Invasive Species Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. URL: www.cabi.org/isc [accessed 2020-04-10]
• MNHNL, iNaturalist & GBIF, 2023. Sceliphron curvatum (F. Smith, 1870) in MNHNL-mdata, online portal combining species observation from Recorder-Lux, iNaturalist and GBIF. National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg. URL: https://mdata.mnhn.lu [accessed 2020-04-10]
• Ries, C., A. Arendt, C. Braunert, S. Christian, A. Dohet, A. Frantz, G. Geimer, M. Hellers, J. A. Massard, X. Mestdagh, R. Proess, N. Schneider & M. Pfeiffenschneider, 2017. Environmental impact assessment and black, watch and alert list classification after the ISEIA Protocol of invertebrates in Luxembourg. Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 119: 63-70. [PDF 360 KB]
• Schneider, N., Y. Barbier, A. Pauly & S. Christian, 2014. Découverte de Sceliphron curvatum (Smith, 1870) en Belgique et au Luxembourg (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 115: 251-253. [PDF 842 KB]
• Wikipedia contributors, 2019. ‘Pélopée courbée’, Wikipédia, l’encyclopédie libre, 25 avril 2019, 05:55 UTC, <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P%C3%A9lop%C3%A9e_courb%C3%A9e&oldid=158729271> [accessed 2020-04-10]