Genus Prionyx van der Linden, 1827

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• Prionyx Van der Linden, P.L. 1827. Observations sur les Hyménoptères d'Europe de la famille des fouisseurs. Part 1. Mémoirs. Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux–Arts de Belgique 4: 271-367 [362].

  Type species:

   Ammophila kirbii Van der Linden, 1827 by monotypy.
• Priononyx Dahlbom, A.G. 1843. Hymenoptera Europaea Praecipue Borealia; formis typicis nonnullis specierum generumve exoticorum aut extraneorum propter nexum systematicum associatis; per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta. I. Sphex in sensu Linneano. Lund : Lundberg, Berolini Vol. 1 528 pp. (1843: 1-172; 1844: 173-352). [28].

  Type species:

   Sphex thomae Fabricius, 1775 by monotypy.
• Enodia Dahlbom, A.G. 1843. Hymenoptera Europaea Praecipue Borealia; formis typicis nonnullis specierum generumve exoticorum aut extraneorum propter nexum systematicum associatis; per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta. I. Sphex in sensu Linneano. Lund : Lundberg, Berolini Vol. 1 528 pp. (1843: 1-172; 1844: 173-352). [28].

  Type species:

   Sphex albisectus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 by subsequent designation, see Kohl, F.F. 1885. Die Gattungen der Sphecinen und die palearktischen Sphex-Arten. Természetrajzi Füzetek 9: 154-207 pls 7-8 [164].
• Harpactopus Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [264].

  Type species:

   Harpactopus crudelis Patton, 1880 by subsequent designation, see Patton, W.H. 1880. Some characters useful in the study of the Sphecidae. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 20: 378-385 [384].
• Parasphex Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [267].

  Type species:

   Sphex albisectus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 by subsequent designation, see Kohl, F.F. 1885. Die Gattungen der Sphecinen und die palearktischen Sphex-Arten. Természetrajzi Füzetek 9: 154-207 pls 7-8 [164].
• Gastrosphaeria Costa, A 1858. Fauna del Regno di Napoli ossia Enumerazione di tutti gli Animali che abitano le diverse Regioni di questo Regno e le Acque che le bagnano e Descrizione de 'nuovi o poco esattemente conosciuti con Figure ricevute de Originali viventi e dipinte al naturale. Imenotteri Aculeati. Gaetano Sautto, Napoli. pp. 1-28, pls I-III [10].

  Type species:

   Gastrospheria anthracina Costa, 1858 by monotypy.
• Pseudosphex Taschenberg, E. 1869. Die Sphegidae des zoologischen Museums der Universität Halle. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 34: 407-435 [420] [junior homonym; Pseudosphex Hübner, 1818].

  Type species:

   Pseudosphex pumilio Taschenberg, 1869 by monotypy.
• Calosphex Kohl, F.F. 1890. Die Hymenopterengruppe der Sphecinen. I Monographie der natürlichen Gattung Sphex Linné (sens. lat.). Abt. I–II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 5: 77-194, 317-462 [113].

  Type species:

   Sphex niveatus Dufour, 1853 by subsequent designation, see Pate, V.S.L. 1937. The generic names of the sphecoid wasps and their type species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 9: 1-103 [15].
• Neosphex Reed, E. 1894. Los fosores o avispas cavadoras. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 85: 599-653 [627].

  Type species:

   Neosphex albospiniferus Reed, 1894 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Pagliano, G. 2003. On some Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) from Australia. pp. 503-510 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp.

 

History of changes

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