Species Rhopalum testaceum Turner, 1917

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• Rhopalum testaceum Turner, R.E. 1917. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XXV. On new Sphecoidea in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 19: 104-113 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Kuranda, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

General References

Leclercq, J. 1957. Le genre Rhopalum en Australie. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 93: 177-232 (redescription)

Leclercq, J. 1997. Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens d'Australie, du genre Rhopalum Stephens, 1829. Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 32: 3-101 [88] (distribution)

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