Species Delta philantes (Saussure, 1852)

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• Eumenes philantes Saussure, H. de 1852. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 1. Monographie des Guêpes solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Euméniens, comprenant la Classification et la Description de toutes les Espèces connues jusqu'à ce Jour, et servant de complément au Manuel de Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau. Paris : Masson 1-128 pls ii-v, vii, x, xiv. [for publication date Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (pages and plates published)] [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Australia (as New Holland).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Mud-nest, prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

Borsato, W. 1994. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi e dei Vespidi Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 125(3): 245-251 [published 31 Jan. 1994; publication dated 1993] [250] (distribution)

Borsato, W. 1996. Terzo contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 127(3): 213-226 [published 29 Feb. 1996; publication dated 1995] [225] (distribution)

Giordani Soika, A. 1941. Studi sui Vespidi solitari. Bollettino della Società Veneziana Storia Naturale 2: 130-279 (taxonomy as Eumenes (Delta) philantes)

Giordani Soika, A. 1958. Biogeografia, evoluzione e sistematica dei Vespidi solitari della Polinesia meridionale. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 10: 183-221 (taxonomy)

Giordani Soika, A. 1973. Designazione di lectotipi ed elenco dei tipi di Eumenidi, Vespidi e Masaridi da me descritti negli anni 1934–1960. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 24: 7-53 (taxonomy)

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