Genus Odynerus Latreille, 1802

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• Odynerus Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [362] [for discussion on type for genus, see Richards, O.W. & van der Vecht, J. 1968. The type of the genus Odynerus Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 28: 196–197].

  Type species:

   Vespa spinipes Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Shuckard, W.E. 1837. Description of a new British wasp, with an account of its development. Magazine of Natural History ns 1: 490-496 [494].

  Secondary source:

   Richards, O.W. & van der Vecht, J. 1968. The type of the genus Odynerus Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 28: 196-197.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

VESPIDAE: Odynerus Lepeletier alecto, 1841 [now placed in Epiodynerus Giordani Soika, 1958, described from 'N. Holl.', is from New Caledonia, see Giordani Soika (1958)]

VESPIDAE: Odynerus drewseni Saussure, 1857 [now placed in Orancistrocerus van der Vecht, 1963 described from 'La Nouvelle Hollande', is from China, see van der Vecht (1963)]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

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

van der Vecht, J. 1963. Studies on Indo-Australian and east-Asiatic Eumenidae (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 60: 1-116

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