Species Cerceris goddardi Cockerell, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerceris goddardi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Wasps of the genus Cerceris in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 32-36 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T4015 ♀, Dunk Island, QLD.
• Cerceris insulicola Tsuneki, K. 1968. On some Cerceris from Australia, with a tentative key to the Australian species (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Etizenia 28: 1-32 [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM ♂, Prince of Wales Island, QLD.

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 [351] (also Cerceris venusta auct., non Cerceris venusta Smith, 1873; for explanation see Evans, H.E. 1982. The genus Cerceris in eastern Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 107: 299–380 [351])

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), 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 [350] (redescription)

Evans, H.E. & Hook, A.W. 1982. Communal nesting in Australian Cerceris Digger Wasps. pp. 159-163 in Breed, M.D., Michener, C.D. & Evans, H.E. (eds). The Biology of Social Insects. Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Boulder, Colorado, August 1982. Boulder : Westview Press 419 pp. (biology)

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