Species Paralastor alexandriae Perkins, 1914
- Paralastor alexandriae Perkins, R.C.L. 1914. On the species of Alastor (Paralastor) Sauss. and some other Hymenoptera of the family Eumenidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 563-624 pl. I [618 pl. I figs 7, 22].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Alexandria, NT.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Alexandria, Adelaide River and Kakadu National Park.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in abandoned mud-nests of Sceliphron spp., prey larval Lepidoptera (Gelechiidae).
General References
Borsato, W. 1994. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi e dei Vespidi Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 125(3): 245-251 [published 31 Jan. 1994; publication dated 1993] [249] (distribution)
Naumann, I.D. 1983. The biology of mud nesting Hymenoptera (and their associates) and Isoptera in rock shelters of the Kakadu Region, Northern Territory. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service Special Publication 10: 127-189 [Date published 31/12/1983] (nest, biology)
History of changes
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