Species Rhopalum frenchii (Turner, 1908)

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• Crabro (Rhopalum) frenchii 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 [526].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, VIC.

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: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

General References

Leclercq, J. 1957. Le genre Rhopalum en Australie. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 93: 177-232 (redescription)

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 (redescription, generic placement)

Leclercq, J. 1997. Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens d'Australie, du genre Rhopalum Stephens, 1829. Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 32: 3-101 [68] (redescription, distribution)

Tsuneki, K. 1977. On the crabronine wasps of the southern Pacific and Australia (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Special Publication, Japan Hymenopterists Association 3: 27 pp. (description of variety)

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