Genus Sceliphron Klug, 1801

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sceliphron Klug, J.C.F. 1801. Absonderung einiger Raupentödter und Vereinigung derselben zu einer neuen Gattung Sceliphron. Neue Schrift. Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 3: 555-566 [561].

  Type species:

   Sphex spirifex Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Bingham, C.T. 1897. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Wasps and Bees. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. I xxx 579 pp. [235].
• Pelopoeus Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. (Ed.) C.S. Sonnini. F. Dufort : Paris Vol. 3. pp. xii, 13 + 467 [334].

  Type species:

   Pelopoeus spirifex Fabricius, 1804 (= Sphex spirifex Linnaeus, 1758) 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].
• Prosceliphron van der Vecht, J. & van Breugel, F.M.A. 1968. Revision of the nominate subgenus Sceliphron Latreille (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) (Studies on the Sceliphronini, Part I). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 111: 185-255 [192] [junior homonym; Prosceliphron Frenguelli, 1946].

  Type species:

   Pelopaeus coromandelicus Lepeletier, 1845 by original designation.
• Hensenia Pagliano, G. & Scaramozzino, P. 1990. Elenco dei generi di Hymenoptera del mondo. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 68: 3-210 [Date published 10/05/1990] [5] [replacement name; Prosceliphron van der Vecht, 1968].

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. [39]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Pagliano, G. 2003. On some Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) from Australia. pp. 503-510 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp.

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