Species Antamenes (Antamenes) vernalis (Saussure, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Odynerus (Ancistrocerus) vernalis Saussure, H. de 1853. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 1. Monographie des Guêpes solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Euméniens, comprenant la Classification et la Description de toutes les Espèces connues jusqu'à ce Jour, et servant de complément au Manuel de Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau. Paris : Masson i-l 129-286 pp. pls i, vi, viii-ix, xi-xiii, xv-xxii. [Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (pages and plates published)] [148].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♀ adult, TAS.
• Odynerus flavocinctus Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collections of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London : British Museum pp. 1-147. [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Australia (as New Holland).
• Odynerus (Leionotus) bisulcatus Cameron, P. 1906. Description of a new species of Odynerus (Leionotus) from Australia. The Entomologist 39: 78-79 [78].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown adults, Australia.
• Pachymenes rectispina Giordani Soika, A. 1943. Le specie indo-australiane del genere Pachymenes (Hym. Vespidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 22: 102-117 [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype AGS ♂ adult, Victoria.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Giordani Soika, A. 1962. Gli Odynerus sensu antiquo del continente australiano e della Tasmania. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 14(1961): 57-202 [188]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

Borsato, W. 1994. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi e dei Vespidi Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 125(3): 245-251 [published 31 Jan. 1994; publication dated 1993] [249] (distribution)

Giordani Soika, A. 1977. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi australiani (Hymenoptera). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 55: 109-138 (distribution)

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