Species Deuterodiscoelius verreauxii (de Saussure, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Discoelius verreauxii Saussure, H. de 1852. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 1. Monographie des Guêpes solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Euméniens, comprenant la Classification et la Description de toutes les Espèces connues jusqu'à ce Jour, et servant de complément au Manuel de Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau. Paris : Masson 1-128 pls ii-v, vii, x, xiv. [for publication date Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (pages and plates published)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀ adult (Locality reported as "la Tasmanie"), Tasmania.
• Pseudozethus australensis Perkins, R.C.L. 1914. On the species of Alastor (Paralastor) Sauss. and some other Hymenoptera of the family Eumenidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 563-624 pl. I.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, North Queensland, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2021. Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 4919: 001-068 [11]

Generic Combinations

• Deuterodiscoelius verreauxii (de Saussure, 1852) Giordani Soika, 1977. —
  Giordani Soika, A. 1977. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi australiani (Hymenoptera). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 55: 109-138 (distribution as Deuterodiscoelius verreauxii)
• Pseudozethus verreauxii (de Saussure, 1852). —
  Giordani Soika, A. 1962. Gli Odynerus sensu antiquo del continente australiano e della Tasmania. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 14(1961): 57-202 [60]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera

General References

Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2021. Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 4919: 001-068

History of changes