Species Hemipepsis australasiae (Smith, 1873)

Museums

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• Mygnimia australasiae Smith, F. 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossorial Hymenoptera, in the collection of the British Museum and of species of the rare genus Iswara belonging to the family Dorylidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 12(67): 253–260 [259].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH ♀♂, North–west coast of Australia.
• Cryptochilus (Mygnimia) aureosericeus elizabethae Schulz, 1911 [misidentification, synonymy by Wahis, 1959:9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, GMNH ♀, India, Sylhet.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wahis, R. 1959. Nouvelle contribution a l'etude des Hemipepsis de Java (Hymenotpera Pompilidae, Pepsinae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 35(46): 1–14 [In French]

Generic Combinations

• Hemipepsis australasiae (Smith, 1873). —
  Turner, R.E. 1917. New species of Hymenoptera in the British Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1917(1): 53-84 [80] (new combination, note, distribution)
• Cryptocheilus aureosericeus australasiae (Smith, 1873). —
  Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial Hymenoptera of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253–356 [317] (new combination, description, distribution)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Burma (= Myanmar), Kampuchea (=Cambodia), India, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam.

General References

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 [240] (Hemipepsis australasiae: distribution)

Froggatt, W.W. 1892. Catalogue of the described Hymenoptera of Australia. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 205-248 [Date published 31/12/1892] [215] (Mygnimia australasiae: catalogue)

van der Vecht, J 1953. Indo–Australian Pompilidae (Hym.) II. An annotated list of the oriental species of the genus Hemipepsis DAHLB. Treubia 22(1): 1–17 [4] (Hemipepsis australasiae: catalogue, notes)

Wahis, R. 1959. Nouvelle contribution a l'etude des Hemipepsis de Java (Hymenotpera Pompilidae, Pepsinae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 35(46): 1–14 [In French] [9] (Hemipepsis australasiae: syn. nov. , notes, distribution)

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