Species Rhopalum variitarse Turner, 1915

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• Rhopalum variitarse Turner, R.E. 1915. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XV. New Australian Crabronidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 62-96 [89].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Mt Wellington, TAS.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂♀, Eaglehawk Neck, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Leclercq, J. 1997. Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens d'Australie, du genre Rhopalum Stephens, 1829. Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 32: 3-101 [91].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Diptera (Empididae).

General References

Evans, H.E. & Matthews, R.W. 1971. Notes on the prey and nests of some Australian Crabronini (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 1-4 (nest, prey)

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 (generic placement)

Leclercq, J. 1997. Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens d'Australie, du genre Rhopalum Stephens, 1829. Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 32: 3-101 [92] (distribution)

McCorquodale, D.B. & Thomson, C.E. 1989. The prey of some Australian sphecid wasps (Hymenoptera). Australian Entomological Magazine 16(4): 93-97 [95] (prey)

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