Species Pison pertinax Turner, 1908

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• Pison (Parapison) pertinax Turner, R.E. 1908. Notes on the Australian fossorial wasps of the family Sphegidae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1908: 457-535 pl. xxvi [517].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Mackay, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 7♀, Mackay, 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 [339, Figures 811-819].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spiders, nest using mud or in ground.

General References

Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. (generic placement)

History of changes