Species Pison perplexum Smith, 1856

• Pison perplexus Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [314].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia.

  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 [336, Figures 802-810].
• Pison fuscipenne 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 [294].

  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 [336, Figures 802-810].
• Pison punctulatum Kohl, F.F. 1884. Neue Hymenopteren in den Sammlungen des zoologischen Hof-Cabinetes zu Wien. ii. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33: 331-386 [336].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♀, Peak Downs, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) NHMW ♂, Peak Downs, QLD.

  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 [336, Figures 802-810].

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 [336, Figures 802-810]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spiders, nest using mud in pre-existing cavity in wood.

General References

Roth, H.L. 1885. Notes on the habits of some Australian Hymenoptera Aculeata. (With description of a new species by W.F. Kirby). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 18: 318-328 (biology)

Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial wasps of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253-356 (description of female)

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