Species Podagritus leptospermi (Turner, 1915)

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• Rhopalum leptospermi Turner, R.E. 1915. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XV. New Australian Crabronidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 62-96 [87].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀♂, Yallingup and Warren River, WA.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Diptera (Asilidae, Stratiomyidae, Therevidae).

General References

Evans, H.E. & Matthews, R.W. 1971. Notes on the prey and nests of some Australian Crabronini (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 1-4 (nest, prey)

Leclercq, J. 1950. Notes systématiques sur les Crabroniens; pédonculés Cr (Hymenoptera Sphecidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 26(15): 1-19 (generic placement)

Leclercq, J. 1998. Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens d'Australie du genera Podagritus Spinola, 1851 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Entomofauna 19(18): 285-308 [Date published 30/Sept/1998] [297] (prey, distribution)

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