Species Paragia bicolor Saussure, 1853
- Paragia bicolor Saussure, H. de 1853. Note sur la tribu des Masariens et principalement sur le Masaris vespiformis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 1: xvii-xxi [xxi].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♂ adult, Australia (as New Holland).
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: burrower, volant.
Larva: mellivore, sedentary, soil dweller.
General References
Richards, O.W. 1962. A Revisional Study of the Masarid Wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). London : British Museum 294 pp. [74] (redescription)
Saussure, H. de 1854. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. Troisième Partie comprenant la Monographie des Masariens et un Supplément à la Monographie des Eumeniens. Paris : Masson 1-48 pls i-v. [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)] (redescription, illustration)
History of changes
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