Genus Larra Fabricius, 1793

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• Larra Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp. [220].

  Type species:

   Larra ichneumoniformis Fabricius, 1793 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [438].
• Monomatium Shuckard, W.E. 1840. In Swainson, W. & Shuckard, W. On the History and Natural Arrangement of Insects. Vol. 129 of the Cabinet Cyclopedia of D. Lardner. London : Longman iv 406 pp. [181].

  Type species:

   Larraxena princeps Smith, 1851 by subsequent designation, see Pate, V.S.L. 1935. Synonymical notes on the fossorial wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Pompilidae and Tiphiidae). Entomological News 46: 244-250 [181].
• Lyrops 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). [132] [junior homonym; Lyrops Illiger, 1807].

  Type species:

   Tachytes paganus Dahlbom, 1843 by monotypy.
• Larraxena Smith, F. 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Hymenoptera in the British Museum and other collections. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7: 28-33 [30].

  Type species:

   Larraxena princeps Smith, 1851 by monotypy.
• Larrada 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. [273].

  Type species:

   Sphex anathema Rossi, 1790 by original designation.
• Cratolarra Cameron, P. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of aculeate Hymenoptera from the Oriental zoological region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 5: 17-41 [34] [type species is a secondary homonym of Tachytes femorata Saussure, 1854].

  Type species:

   Cratolarra femorata Cameron, 1900 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-May-2012		03-May-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		13-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)