Species Cerceris windorum Tsuneki, 1968

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• Cerceris windorum Tsuneki, K. 1968. On some Cerceris from Australia, with a tentative key to the Australian species (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Etizenia 28: 1-32 [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Prince of Wales Island, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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 [371] (redescription, distribution)

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 (biology, as Cerceris minuscula)

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