Species Pison decipiens Smith, 1869

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• Pison decipiens Smith, F. 1869. Descriptions of new species of the genus Pison; and a synonymic list of those previously described. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869: 289-300 [295].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Champion Bay, Geraldton, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [139, Figures 275-282].
• Pison dimidiatus Smith, F. 1869. Descriptions of new species of the genus Pison; and a synonymic list of those previously described. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869: 289-300 [295].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Champion Bay, Geraldton, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [139, Figures 275-282].
• Pison inconspicuum Turner, R.E. 1916. Notes on the wasps of the genus Pison, and some allied genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1916: 591-629 [612].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Mundaring Weir, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [139, Figures 275-282].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [139, Figures 275-282]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), South East Corner (SEC), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: arboreal, predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spider, nest using mud.

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1894. On the nests and habits of Australian Vespidae and Larridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 27-34 (biology)

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