Species Podagritus tricolor (Smith, 1856)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crabro tricolor 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. [394].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH ♂, Eaglehawk Neck, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Leclercq, J. 1955. Révision des Podagritus (Spinola, 1851) australiens (Hym. Sphecidae, Crabroninae). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 91: 305-330 [321].
• Crabro (Rhopalum) militaris 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 [523].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, VIC and TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, R.E. 1915. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XV. New Australian Crabronidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 62-96 [92]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Diptera.

General References

Leclercq, J. 1955. Révision des Podagritus (Spinola, 1851) australiens (Hym. Sphecidae, Crabroninae). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 91: 305-330 (redescription)

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] [302] (distribution)

Pate, V.S.L. 1944. Conspectus of the genera of pemphilidine wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). American Midland Naturalist 31: 329-384 (generic placement)

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