Species Ammophila instabilis Smith, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ammophila instabilis 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. [214].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Swan River, WA & Port Essington, NT.
• Ammophila impatiens Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868] [247].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Champion Bay, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [466]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, 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 Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

History of changes