Species Rhopalum cornigerum Tsuneki, 1977

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• Rhopalum (Rhopalum) cornigerum Tsuneki, K. 1977. On the crabronine wasps of the southern Pacific and Australia (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Special Publication, Japan Hymenopterists Association 3: 27 pp. [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype TTMB ♂, Botany Bay, Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Diptera.

General References

Leclercq, J. 1978. Crabroniens du genre Rhopalum Stephens trouvés en Australie (Hymenoptera Sphecidae). Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 47: 352-362 (generic placement)

Leclercq, J. 1997. Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens d'Australie, du genre Rhopalum Stephens, 1829. Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 32: 3-101 [54] (generic placement, distribution)

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