Genus Ammophila Kirby, 1798

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• Ammophila Kirby, W. 1798. Ammophila, a new genus of insect in the class Hymenoptera, including the Sphex sabulosa of Linnaeus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 195-212 [199].

  Type species:

   Sphex sabulosa Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1946. Opinion 180. On the status of the names Sphex Linnaeus, 1758, and Ammophila Kirby, 1798 (Class Insecta, Order Hymenoptera). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2: 569-585 [571].
• Miscus Jurine, L. 1807. Nouvelle méthode de classer les Hyménoptères et les Diptères. Genève : Paschold iv 319 pp. + 1 unnumbered pp., 1–14 pl. [130].

  Type species:

   Miscus campestris Latreille, 1809 by subsequent designation, see Shuckard, W.E. 1837. Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera; comprising a description of all the British species of burrowing sand wasps contained in the metropolitan collections; with their habits as far as they have been observed. London : Shuckard xii XII pp., one pl., 252 + [2] pp., pl. 1–4, [4] pp. [79].
• Coloptera Latreille, 1845.

  Type species:

   Coloptera barbara Lepeletier, 1845 by monotypy.
• Argyrammophila Gussakovskij, V.V. 1928. Novyie vidy Sphecidae iz Zakaspiya i Khivy – Sphecidarum species novae. Izvestiya Kursov Prikladnoy Zoologii i Fitopatologii 4: 3-19 [7].

  Type species:

   Ammophila induta Kohl, 1901 by original designation.
• Apycnemia Leclercq, J. 1961. Découverte d'une nouvelle Ammophile d'Espagne appartenant au groupe fallax Kohl (Hym. Sphecidae). EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 37: 211-214 [211].

  Type species:

   Ammophila fallax Kohl, 1884 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-May-2012		02-May-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		13-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)