Species Pison spinolae Shuckard, 1838

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• Pison spinolae Shuckard, W.E. 1838. Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 68-82 pl. viii [76].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Pison australis Saussure, H. de 1855. Mélanges hyménoptérologiques. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 14: 1-67 [11].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MHNG ♀, Australia.
• Pison tasmanicus 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. [316].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, TAS.
• Taranga dubia Kirby, W.F. 1883. Notes on new or little known species of Hymenoptera chiefly from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 199-203 [201].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, New Zealand.
• Pison pruinosum Cameron, P. 1898. Notes on a collection of Hymenoptera from Greymouth, New Zealand, with descriptions of new species. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42: 1-53 [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Greymouth, New Zealand.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [290]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

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

General References

Callan, E.M. 1977. Macrosiagon diversiceps (Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae) reared from a sphecid wasp, with notes on other species. Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 45-47 (parasite)

Cowley, D.R. 1962. Aspects of the biology of the immature stages of Pison spinolae Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1: 355-363

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)

Naumann, I.D. 1990. The aculeate wasps and bees (Hymenoptera) of Norfolk and Philip Islands. Australian Entomological Magazine 17(1): 17-28 [24] (distribution)

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 [429, Figures 1043-1055]

Smithers, C.N. 1998. A species list and bibliography of the insects recorded from Norfolk Island. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum No. 13: 1-52 [46] (distribution)

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