Species Pison westwoodii Shuckard, 1838

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• Pison westwoodii Shuckard, W.E. 1838. Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 68-82 pl. viii [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, 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 [487, Figures 1183-1197].
• Pison obliquum 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:

   Lectotype ZC ♀, TAS.

  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 [487, Figures 1183-1197].
• Pison iridipenne Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of new species of aculeate Hymenoptera collected by the Rev. Thos. Blackburn in the Sandwich Islands. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14: 674-685 [676].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Hawaiian Islands.

  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 [487, Figures 1183-1197].
• Pison strictifrons Vachal, J. 1907. Hyménoptères de la Nouvelle–Calédonie. Rapportés par le Lieutenant Quod. Apidae, Sphocidae, Eumenidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Evanidae, Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Chalcididae. Revue d'Entomologie publiée par la Société Française d'Entomologie, Caen 26: 113–123 [In French] [114].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHNN ♀, New Caledonia.
• Pison impunctatum Turner, 1912.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Western Papua, Indonesia.
• Pison korrorense Yasumatsu, K. 1937. Sphecoidea of Micronesia (Hymenoptera). Mushi 9: 129-134, pl. 10 [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Island of Koror, Palau Republic.
• Pison doggonum Menke, A.S. 1988. Pison in the New World, a revision (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Trypoxylini). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 24(3): 171pp. [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC ♀ (corrected to Western Pacific Islands by Menke, 1990:154, may actually be southeast Asia, New Guinea, or Australia), Mexico.

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 [487, Figures 1183-1197]

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: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, 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

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)

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

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)

History of changes