Species Rhynchium mirabile Saussure, 1852
- Rygchium mirabile Saussure, H. de 1852. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 1. Monographie des Guêpes solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Euméniens, comprenant la Classification et la Description de toutes les Espèces connues jusqu'à ce Jour, et servant de complément au Manuel de Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau. Paris : Masson 1-128 pls ii-v, vii, x, xiv. [for publication date Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (pages and plates published)] [106 pl. xiv fig. 5].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♀ adult, TAS (locality probably incorrect). - Rhynchium rothi Kirby, W.F. 1885. [new species]. pp. 324-326 in Roth, H.L. Notes on the habits of some Australian Hymenoptera Aculeata. (With description of a new species by W.F. Kirby). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 18: 318-328 [324].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Mackay, QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Giordani Soika, A. 1962. Gli Odynerus sensu antiquo del continente australiano e della Tasmania. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 14(1961): 57-202 [200]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Ord River, Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Litchfield National Park, Katherine Gorge National Park, Torres Strait, Townsville, Mackay, Moreton Bay, also Aru Ils., Key Ils. and New Pomerania.
IBRA
NT, Qld, Tas, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Mud-nest, prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
Borsato, W. 1996. Terzo contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 127(3): 213-226 [published 29 Feb. 1996; publication dated 1995] [215] (distribution)
Cheesman, L.E. 1954. A new species of Odynerus, subgen. Rhygchium (Eumeninae), from the Loyalty Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 7: 385-390 (redescription as Odynerus (Rhygchium) rothi)
Roth, H.L. 1885. Notes on the habits of some Australian Hymenoptera Aculeata. (With description of a new species by W.F. Kirby). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 18: 318-328 (biology as Rhynchium rothi)
Smith, F. 1864. Notes on the geographical distribution of the aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.R. Wallace in the eastern archipelago. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 7: 109-145 (distribution)
Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 560 pp. (plate 21)
History of changes
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