Species Pompilus lunulatus (Saussure, 1867)

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• Pogonius lunulatus Saussure, H. de 1867. Hymenoptera. In, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 den unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Wien : K-K Hof- und Staatsdrückerei Vol. 2(1a) 138 pp. [58].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ♀, NSW, Sydney.
• Pompilus spectrum Kohl, F.F. 1886. Neue Pompiliden in den Sammlungen des K.K. naturhistorischen Hofsmuseum. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36: 307–346 [In German] [329] [synonymy by Turner, 1910:317].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NMW sex unknown, NSW, Sydney (as Sidney).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial Hymenoptera of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253–356

Generic Combinations

• Agenia lunulata (Saussure, 1867). —
  Dalla Torre, C.G. de 1897. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusquea Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Fossores (Sphegidae). Leipzig : G. Engelmann Vol. 8 viii 749 pp. [338] (new combination, catalogue, distribution)
• Pseudagenia lunulata (Saussure, 1867). —
  Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial Hymenoptera of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253–356 [317] (new combination, description)
• Deuteragenia lunulata (Saussure, 1867). —
  Junco y Reyes, J.J. del 1951. Himenópteros de España. Familia Psammocharidae (Olim. Pompilidae). II. Claveliinae Calicurgini. EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 27: 143–233 [In Spanish] [165] (new combination, catalogue)
• Pompilus lunulatus (Saussure, 1867). —
  Schulz, W.A. 1911. Zweihundert alte Hymenopteren. Zoologischer Anzeiger 4: 1–220 [In German] [124–125, 208]

Introduction

Junco Y Reyes (1951) placed this species in Deuteragenia, Šustera, 1913 (now a subgenus of Dipogon Fox, 1897) along with other species placed in Pogonius, Dahlbom 1845. However, he may have been unaware of Schulz’s (1911) earlier placement in Pompilus and Saussure’s description which states that the abdomen is sessile. As Dipogon has not previously been recorded from Australia and Junco Y Reyes made a number of other errors relating to Australian material [Elliott 2007 retained] the species in Pompilus until its exact placement is determined.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

General References

Elliott, M.G. 2007. Annotated catalogue of the Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) of Australia. Zootaxa 1428: 1-83 [Date published 19 Mar. 2007]

Froggatt, W.W. 1892. Catalogue of the described Hymenoptera of Australia. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 205-248 [Date published 31/12/1892] [214, 215] (Pompilus spectrum [214], Pogonius lunulatus [215]: catalogue)

Junco y Reyes, J.J. del 1951. Himenópteros de España. Familia Psammocharidae (Olim. Pompilidae). II. Claveliinae Calicurgini. EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 27: 143–233 [In Spanish]

Schulz, W.A. 1911. Zweihundert alte Hymenopteren. Zoologischer Anzeiger 4: 1–220 [In German] [125, 208] (Pompilus spectrum: as synonym of Pompilus lunulatus (Saussure, 1867))

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