Species Anterhynchium (Epiodynerus) tasmaniense (Saussure, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Odynerus (Leionotus) tasmaniensis 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)] [199 pl. xviii fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂ adult, TAS.
• Rhynchium abispoides Meade-Waldo, G. 1910. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 30-51 [Jan. 1910] [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Townsville, QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Cheesman, L.E. 1954. A new species of Odynerus, subgen. Rhygchium (Eumeninae), from the Loyalty Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 7: 385-390.

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 [92]

Generic Combinations

• Anterhynchium (Epiodynerus) tasmaniense (Saussure, 1853). —
  Giordani Soika, A. 1986. Eumenidi di Okinawa e delle Filippine raccolti da J. Kojima. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 35: 67-89

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

Borsato, W. 1996. Terzo contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 127(3): 213-226 [published 29 Feb. 1996; publication dated 1995] [215] (distribution as Anterhynchium (Epiodynerus) tasmaniensis)

CSIRO (ed.) 1970. The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press xiv 1029 pp. (plate 6 K—model for mimicry)

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

Giordani Soika, A. 1993. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi dell'Australia e della Nuova Guinea (Hym. Vespoidea). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 42(1991): 125-149 [146] (distribution)

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