Genus Abispa Mitchell, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Abispa Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 [xxiv] 351 pp. 21pls.

  Type species:

   Vespa (Abispa) australiana Mitchell, 1838 by monotypy.
• Abisba Ashmead, W.H. 1902. Classification of the fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. The Canadian Entomologist 34: 203-210 [208] [invalid name; designation of type species as Vespa ephippium Fabricius, not originally included].
• Monerebia 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)] [98].

  Type species:

   Odynerus splendidus Guérin, 1838 by subsequent designation, see van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115 [92].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115 [92]

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115 [94]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

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