Genus Clitemnestra Spinola, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clitemnestra Spinola, M. 1851. Himenópteros. pp. 153–569 in Gay, C. Historia Física y Política de Chile. Zoologia. Paris : Maulde & Revon Vol. 6. 572 pp. [341].

  Type species:

   Arpactus (Clitemnestra) gayi Spinola, 1851 by original designation.
• Miscothyris Smith, F. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of exotic Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869: 301-311 pl. vi [307].

  Type species:

   Miscothyris thoracicus Smith, 1869 by monotypy.
• Ochleroptera Holmberg, E.L. 1903. Delectus Hymenopterologicus Argentinus Hymenopterorum Argentinorum et Quorumdam Exoticorum Observationes Synonimicas, Addendas, Novorumque Generum Specierumque Descriptiones Continens. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 3 2: 377–512 [487].

  Type species:

   Ochleroptera oblita Holmberg, 1903 by monotypy.
• Paramellinus Rohwer, S.A. 1912. Descriptions of new species of wasps in the collections of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 41: 447-478 [469].

  Type species:

   Gorytes bipunctatus Say, 1824 by original designation.
• Astaurus Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [60].

  Type species:

   Astaurus hylaeoides Rayment, 1955 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. [51]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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