Species Pompilus audax Westwood, 1842

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• Pompilus audax Westwood, J.O. 1842. Some account of the natural history of a fossorial hymenopterous insect from Port Lincoln, South Australia. Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1842: 53–54 [for dating of this publication see Wheeler (1912)] [53–54].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ♂, SA, Port Lincoln.

Distribution

States

South Australia

General References

Dalla Torre, C.G. de 1897. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusquea Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Fossores (Sphegidae). Leipzig : G. Engelmann Vol. 8 viii 749 pp. [275] (Pompilus audax: catalogue, distribution; note that in his catalogue Dalla Torre lists Pompilus audax Westwood from the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1842) 3(2) p. 44. [Elliott 2007 has] examined this volume and cannot locate this name on the page. Page 44 is occupied by an article by E. Newman on the Popillia (Coleoptera). No other articles in this volume by Westwood list this name. In his description in 1845 Westwood did not cite any prior references. The appearance of the name in the Proceedings is the only reference prior to 1845 that [Elliott 2007 could] locate)

Westwood, J.O. 1845. Memoirs on various species of Hymenopterous insects. 3. Some account of the Habits of a new Species of fossorial Hymenopterous Insect from South Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4(2): 139–141 [139–141] (Pompilus audax)

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