Species Paralastor smithii (Saussure, 1856)

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Regional Maps

• Alastor (Paralastor) smithii Saussure, H. de 1856. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. Troisième Partie comprenant la Monographie des Masariens et un Supplément à la Monographie des Eumeniens. Paris : Masson 289-352 pls xv-xvi. [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)] [333 pl. xvi fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Paralastor smithii (de Saussure, 1856). —
  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 (species named was erroneously spelled as smithi)

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

No locality specified.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

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 (generic placement)

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