Genus Ctenostegus Haupt, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ctenostegus Haupt, H. 1930. Die Einordnung der mir bekannten Psammocharidae mit 2 Cubitalzellen in mein System. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 16: 673–797 [In German] [685].

  Type species:

   Sphex cingulata Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.
• Aglochares Banks, N. 1941. Psammocharidae from the Solomon Islands, Prince of Wales Island and New Caledonia. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 16(10): 231–245 [245].

  Type species:

   Aglochares vachali Banks, 1941 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, H.E. 1976. A revision of spider wasps of the genus Ctenostegus (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 43: 1–107 [1] (synonymised Aglochares Banks, 1941 with Ctenostegus Haupt, 1930)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Aporus Riek, 1970 [misidentification according to Evans, 1976:1; fig.]. —
  Riek, E.F. 1970. Hymenoptera (Wasps, bees, ants) 44. Pompilidae. pp. 928–931 in CSIRO (ed). The Insects of Australia, A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press. [930]

Introduction

Species of Ctenostegus are readily collected in pitfall and malaise traps. It may well be the most speciose pompilid genus in Australia.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Day, M.C. 1981. A revision of Pompilus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), with further nomenclatural and biological considerations. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 42(1): 1–42 [9] (Ctenostegus: notes (morphology, relationship to Turneromyia and Pompilus))

Evans, H.E. 1972. A review of the Australian species of Elaphrosyron and Telostegus, with notes on other genera (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 386: 1–18 [14] (Ctenostegus: notes)

Evans, H.E. 1976. A revision of spider wasps of the genus Ctenostegus (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 43: 1–107 [8] (Ctenostegus: description, species groups, key to Australian spp.)

Naumann, I.D. 1991. Hymenoptera (Wasps, bees, ants, sawflies) 58. Pompilidae. pp. 974–976 in Naumann, I.D. (ed.). The Insects of Australia. Carlton : Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Canberra and Melbourne University Press. [975] (Ctenostegus: note; prey)

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