Species Batozonellus tricolor (Smith, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pompilus tricolor Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868] [242].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH ♂, SA, Adelaide.
• Pompilus trichrous Dalla Torre, C.G. de 1897. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusquea Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Fossores (Sphegidae). Leipzig : G. Engelmann Vol. 8 viii 749 pp. [327] [replacement name; unnecessary nom. nov. for Pompilus tricolor Smith, 1868; synonymy by Turner, 1915:335].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, R.E. 1915. Family Psammocharidae. In, Meade–Waldo, G., Morley, C. & Turner, R.E. Notes and Synonymy of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 16(94): pp. 332–335

Generic Combinations

• Batozonellus tricolor (Smith, 1868). —
  Junco Y Reyes, J.J. del 1962. Himenópteros de España. Familia Pompilidae (=Psammocharidae) Géns. Episyrón Schdt., Batozonellus Arnd., Ctenostegus Hpt., Schistonyx Sauss. y Aporinellus Bks. EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 38(4): 485–547 [In Spanish] [514] (new combination, catalogue; locality given as Africa is an error)
• Batozonus tricolor (Smith, 1868). —
  Turner, R.E. 1915. Family Psammocharidae. In, Meade–Waldo, G., Morley, C. & Turner, R.E. Notes and Synonymy of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 16(94): pp. 332–335 [335]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Prey records: Poecilopachys australasia (Griffin & Pigeon, 1833) (Araneidae) (Evans et al., 1981)

General References

Banks, N. 1941. Psammocharidae from the Solomon Islands, Prince of Wales Island and New Caledonia. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 16(10): 231–245 [243] (Batozonus tricolor: distribution)

Evans, H.E., Evans, M.A. & Hook, A. 1981. Observations on the prey and nests of some Australian spider wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 8(1): 9–12 [11] (Batozonellus tricolor: prey)

Froggatt, W.W. 1892. Catalogue of the described Hymenoptera of Australia. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 205-248 [Date published 31/12/1892] [214] (Pompilus tricolor: catalogue)

Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 560 pp. [292] (Batozonus tricolor: note)

Turner, R.E. 1916. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. – XIX. On new species from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 17: 116–136 [123] (Batozonus tricolor: description, distribution, notes on sexual dimorphism)

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