Genus Agenioideus Ashmead, 1902

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• Agenioideus Ashmead, W.H. 1902. Classification of the fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. Paper No. 5. The Canadian Entomologist 34(6): 131–137 [85].

  Type species:

   Pompilus humilis Cresson, 1861 by original designation.
• Aporoideus Ashmead, W.H. 1902. Classification of the fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. Paper No. 5. The Canadian Entomologist 34(6): 131–137 [86].

  Type species:

   Pompilus sericeus Van der Linden, 1827 by original designation.
• Sericopompilus Banks, N. 1911. Psammocharidae, classification and description. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 19: 219–237 [229] [in part].
• Gymnochares Banks, 1917 [107, 108].

  Type species:

   Psammochares birkmanni Banks, 1910 by subsequent designation, see Pate, V.S.L. 1946. The generic names of spider wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and their type species (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 72: 65–137 [88].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wolf, H. 1985. Zur kenntnis der gattung Agenioideus Ashmead, 1902 (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 17(1): 223–258 [In German] [231] (synonymised Gymnochares Banks, 1917 with Agenioideus Ashmead, 1902)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Agenoideus Ashmead, 1902 [lapsus calami for Agenioideus by Banks, 1917:107].

Introduction

Evans (1950) synonymised Aporoides Ashmead, 1902 with Agenioideus. Consequently, the single species of Aporoides recorded from Australia is here listed under Agenioideus. None of the Australian species of Agenioideus have been placed to subgenera, viz. Ageniopompilus Priesner, 1955; Mimochares Wahis, 1970; Rufopompilus Wolf, 1970; Sericopompilus Howard, 1901; Enbanksia Evans, 1965 (as subgenus); Schizanoplius Cameron, 1904 (for priority of this name over Ridestus Banks, 1911 see Wahis (2000:77)); Agenioideus Ashmead, 1902; Iberochares Wahis, 1970; Alloridestus Wolf, 1979.

Krogmann and Austin (2012) reviewed the systematics of Agenioideus, provided a key to species, and transferred Agenioideus ultimus to Spuridiophorus Arnold.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC)

General References

Krogmann, L. & Austin, A.D. 2012. Systematics of Australian Agenioideus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with the first record of a spider wasp parasitizing Latrodectus hasselti Thorell (redback spider). Australian Journal of Entomology 51: 166-174

Wahis, R. 2000. Sur quelques Pompilides afrotropicaux décrits par G. Gribodo en 1894 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 40: 77–81 [In French]

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