Species Parodynerus bicincta (Fabricius, 1781)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vespa bicincta Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [465].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, 'Cap. bon. sp.' (this locality is erroneous, the species is found on Pacific islands).

  Type locality references:

  Bequaert, J. 1918. A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1-384.
• Odynerus bizonatus Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1835. Faune Entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique, Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté pendant les Années 1826–29, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. 2 vols. Paris : Tastu vii 716 pp. [658 pl. 12 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Tonga Ils.

  Type locality references:

  Bequaert, J. 1928. The diplopterous wasps of Fabricius, in the Banksian collection at the British Museum. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 23: 53-63.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collections of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London : British Museum pp. 1-147. [63]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Record doubtful, also Pacific islands of Samoa, Tonga, Marquesas, Fiji, New Caledonia and Society Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

 

General References

Baltazar, C.R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758–1963). Pacific Insects Monographs 8: 1-488 [Date published 31/12/1966] (distribution)

Bequaert, J. 1928. The diplopterous wasps of Fabricius, in the Banksian collection at the British Museum. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 23: 53-63 (taxonomy)

Giordani Soika, A. 1943. Le specie indo-australiane del genere Pachymenes (Hym. Vespidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 22: 102-117 (taxonomy, Australian record)

Giordani Soika, A. 1958. Biogeografia, evoluzione e sistematica dei Vespidi solitari della Polinesia meridionale. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 10: 183-221 (taxonomy, generic placement)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1970. Opinion 893. Eumenidae names of Saussure(Hymenoptera): grant of availability to certain names proposed for secondary divisions of genera. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 26: 187-191 (Odynerus bizonatus placed on Official List of Specific Names)

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)] (Pacific islands and New Holland as Odynerus bizonatus)

 

History of changes

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