Species Aulacophilinus caliginosum (Turner, 1908)

Museums

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• Pison (Parapison) caliginosum 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 [518].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Kuranda, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Aulacophilinus caliginosum (Turner, 1908). —
  Menke, A.S. 2016. A re-evaluation of the generic limits of Pison Jurine, and a new species of the genus Aulaocphilinus Lomholdt (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Trypoxylini). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 63(11): 333-340

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), 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), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spiders, nest using mud or in ground.

General References

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

Naumann, I.D. 1990. Description of the caliginosum species group of the genus Pison Jurine (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Larrinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 29: 233-245 [235] (redescription, distribution)

Smithers, C.N. 1998. A species list and bibliography of the insects recorded from Norfolk Island. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum No. 13: 1-52 [46] (distribution)

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