Species Cerceris antipodes Smith, 1856

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• Cerceris antipodes 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. [451].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Australia.
• Cerceris saeva Smith, F. 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 12: 291-300, 402-415 [414].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Lower Plenty, now Melbourne, VIC.
• Cerceris brisbanensis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Wasps of the genus Cerceris in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 32-36 [34].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QM ♀, Darra, QLD.
• Cerceris goodwini Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Wasps of the genus Cerceris in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 32-36 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T4017 ♀, Stanthorpe, QLD.
• Cerceris ziegleri Rayment, T. 1947. New bees and wasp—Part IV. A new Cerceris wasp, and some small chrysomelid beetles. Victorian Naturalist 63: 256-260 [256].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Emerald, VIC.
• Cerceris sculleni Tsuneki, K. 1968. On some Cerceris from Australia, with a tentative key to the Australian species (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Etizenia 28: 1-32 [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, H.E. 1982. The genus Cerceris in eastern Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 107: 299-380 [356]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae).

General References

Alcock, J. 1980. Communal nesting in an Australian solitary wasp, Cerceris antipodes Smith (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 223-228 (nest)

Evans, H.E. 1982. The genus Cerceris in eastern Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 107: 299-380 [356] (redescription)

Evans, H.E. & Mathews, R.W. 1970. Notes on the nests and prey of Australian wasps of the genus Cerceris (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 9: 153-156 (nest, prey)

Turner, R.E. 1912. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Cerceris. (Hymenoptera.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 644-678 (redescription)

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