Species Calopompilus raptor (Smith, 1862)

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• Pompilus raptor Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new species of Australian Hymenoptera, and of a species of Formica from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 53-62 [Date published 31/12/1862] [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, NSW, Sydney.
• Priocnemis polydorus Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868] [246] [synonymy by Turner, 1910:322].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH ♀, Australia.
• Pompilus pollens Kohl, F.F. 1886. Neue Pompiliden in den Sammlungen des K.K. naturhistorischen Hofsmuseum. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36: 307–346 [In German] [332–333] [synonymy by Turner, 1910:322].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NMW ♀, Tasmania (as Vandiemensland).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial Hymenoptera of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253–356

Generic Combinations

• Chirodamus raptor (Smith, 1862). —
  Williams, G. & Adam, P. 1995. Records of aculeate wasps from flowering subtropical rainforest trees. Australian Entomologist 22(2): 51–58 [54] (list)
• Calopompilus raptor (Smith, 1862). —
  Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial Hymenoptera of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253–356 [322] (new combination, description)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1892. Catalogue of the described Hymenoptera of Australia. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 205-248 [Date published 31/12/1892] [214] (Pompilus raptor, Priocnemis polydorus, Pompilus pollens: catalogue)

Junco y Reyes, J.J. del 1947. Himenópteros de España. fam Psammocharidae (Olim. Pompilidae). I. Pepsinae. II. Gen. Priocnemis Schdte. EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 22: 123–298 [In Spanish] [138] (Priocnemis polydorus: list)

Schulz, W.A. 1911. Zweihundert alte Hymenopteren. Zoologischer Anzeiger 4: 1–220 [In German] [114, 207] (Priocnemis polydorus [114]: note; Pompilus pollens [114, 207]: synonymy with Calopompilus polydorus (Smith, 1868))

Smith, F. 1873. [Untitled section]. In, Brenchley, J.L. Jottings during the cruise of the H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London : Longmans, Green, and Co. xxviii + 487 pp. [458, pl. 43] (Priocnemis polydorus: list, figure)

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