Species Abispa (Abispa) australiana (Mitchell, 1838)
- Vespa (Abispa) australiana Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 [xxiv] 351 pp. 21pls. [104].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Karaula River, NSW. - Abispa australis Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collections of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London : British Museum pp. 1-147. [42].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 18.237 ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham; a male according to Meade-Waldo 1910, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 5: 49), Port Essington, NT.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bridwell, J.C. 1919. Miscellaneous notes on Hymenoptera. With descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 109-165 [122]
Generic Combinations
- Abispa (Abispa) australiana (Mitchell, 1838).
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), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Mud nest, prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
Bridwell, J.C. 1919. Miscellaneous notes on Hymenoptera. With descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 4: 109-165 (taxonomy)
van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115 (taxonomy)
History of changes
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