Species Pison rufipes Shuckard, 1838

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• Pison (Pisonitus) rufipes Shuckard, W.E. 1838. Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 68-82 pl. viii [79].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (and OUM), TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).

  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 [396, Figures 960-966].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: arboreal, predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spiders, nest using mud.

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)

Evans, H.E., Matthews, R.W. & Hook, A. 1981. Notes on the nests and prey of six species of Pison in Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 87: 221-230 (nest, prey)

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