Species Ammophila atripes Smith, 1852

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• Ammophila atripes Smith, F. 1852. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects captured in India, with notes on their economy, by Ezra T. Downes Esq., who presented them to the Honourable the East India Company. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 9: 44-50 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Maharashtra, Khandaly, India.
• ?Ammophila dimidiata Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [216] [junior homonym; Ammophila dimidiata (Christ, 1791)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Bombay, Madras, north Bengal, India.
• Ammophila pulchella Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [218].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.
• Ammophila simillima Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [217].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Hong Kong, China.
• Ammophila humbertiana Saussure, H. de 1867. Hymenoptera. In, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 den unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Wien : K-K Hof- und Staatsdrückerei Vol. 2(1a) 138 pp. [25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG ♀, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Menke A.S. in Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. [151].
• Ammophila longiventris Saussure, H. de 1867. Hymenoptera. In, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 den unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Wien : K-K Hof- und Staatsdrückerei Vol. 2(1a). 138 pp. [24].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG ♂, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Menke A.S. in Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. [151].
• Ammophila spinosa Smith, F. 1873. Descriptions of Aculeate Hymenoptera of Japan, collected by Mr George Lewis at Nagasaki and Hiogo. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873(2): 181–206.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Hong Kong, China.
• Ammophila buddha Cameron, P. 1889. Hymenoptera Orientalis or contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 4 2: 91-152 [94].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM sex not indicated, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India & Barrackpore 20 km north Calcutta, West Bengal.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

NT records (from Katherine, Darwin, Burnside) doubtful, the species is found in S and SE Asia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

 

General References

Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. (species from Oriental Region)

Tsuneki, K. 1967. Studies on the Formosan Sphecidae (III). The subfamily Sphecinae with special reference to the genus Ammophila in eastern Asia (Hymenoptera). Etizenia 26: 1-24 (redescription)

 

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)