Species Pseudabispa paragioides (Meade-Waldo, 1910)

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• Abispa paragioides Meade-Waldo, G. 1910. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 30-51 [Jan. 1910] [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Port Darwin, NT.

Generic Combinations

• Pseudabispa paragiodes (Meade-Waldo, 1910).

Introduction

Borsato (2003) assigns the specimens collected in the Northern Territory to this species, but he could not compare them with the type. To be noted that the original description by Meade Waldo was made on two male specimens collected at Port Darwin, NT, while he found some colouration differences when comparing with the determination table in van der Vecht (1960).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115 (generic placement)

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