Species Cerceris venusta Smith, 1873

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• Cerceris venusta 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 [413].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Coleoptera (Scarabaeidae).

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)

Krombein, K.V. 1969. A revision of the Melanesian wasps of the genus Cerceris Latr. (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 22: 1-36 (Melanesian subspecies)

Krombein, K.V. 1973. Systematic and distributional notes on Melanesian Cerceris (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 75: 464-467 (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 (description of male)

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