Species Exeirus lateritius Shuckard, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Exeirus lateritius Shuckard, W.E. 1838. Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 68-82 pl. viii [72 pl. 8 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀♂, Sydney, NSW and TAS.
• Sphecius lanio Stal, C. 1857. Nya arter af Sphegidae. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 14: 63-64 [64].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM sex not indicated (lost), Australia (as New Holland).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Handlirsch, A. 1888. Monographie der mit Nysson und Bembex verwandten Grabwespen. ii. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 96: 219-311 [306]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey Auchenorrhyncha (Cicadidae).

General References

Alcock, J. 1980. Notes on the reproductive behaviour of some Australian solitary wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Tachysphex and Exeirus). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 259-262 (mating behaviour)

McCulloch, A.R. 1923. War in the garden. Australian Museum Magazine 1: 209-212 (behaviour)

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