Subspecies Abispa (Abispa) splendida splendida (Guérin, 1838)

• Odynerus splendidus Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1838. Insectes. pp. 57-302 in Lesson, M. (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. ii Pt 2 Div 1 ch. xiii pp. [265].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♂ adult, Australia (as New Holland).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Mud-nest, prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

Brewster, M.N., Brewster, A.A. & Crouch, N. 1946. Life Stories of Australian Insects. Sydney : Dymock's 2, viii 332 pp. (biology)

Froggatt, W.W. 1894. On the nests and habits of Australian Vespidae and Larridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 27-34 (biology)

Roth, H.L. 1885. Notes on the habits of some Australian Hymenoptera Aculeata. (With description of a new species by W.F. Kirby). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 18: 318-328 (nest)

Smith, A.P. & Alcock, J. 1980. A comparative study of the mating systems of Australian eumenid wasps (Hymenoptera). Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 53: 41-60

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