Species Pison basale Smith, 1869

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• Pison basalis Smith, F. 1869. Descriptions of new species of the genus Pison; and a synonymic list of those previously described. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869: 289-300 [292].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [102, Figures 178-185].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spiders, nest using mud or in ground.

History of changes