Species Ammophila clavus (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphex clavus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [348].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

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. (generic placement)

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 (non-Australian subspecies)

Turner, R.E. 1908. Notes on the Australian fossorial wasps of the family Sphegidae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1908: 457-535 pl. xxvi (redescription)

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