Species Cerceris euchroma Turner, 1910

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• Cerceris euchroma Turner, R.E. 1910. New fossorial Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910: 407-429 pl. 50 [424].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Cairns, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

General References

Evans, H.E. 1982. The genus Cerceris in eastern Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 107: 299-380 [343] (redescription, distribution)

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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