Bibliography for SPHECIDAE (s. str.)

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• Dahlbom, A.G. 1842. Dispositio Methodica Specierum Scandinavicarum ad Familias Naturales Hymenopterorum pertinentium. Part I. Sphex in sensu Linnaeano. Lund : Carolus Fr. Berling 16 pp., 1 pl.
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• Dahlbom, A.G. 1845. Hymenoptera Europaea Praecipue Borealia; formis typicis nonnullis specierum generumve exoticorum aut extraneorum propter nexum systematicum associatis; per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta. I. Sphex in sensu Linneano. Lund : Lundberg, Berolini Vol. 1 528 pp. (1843: 1-172; 1844: 173-352;).
• Dalla Torre, C.G. de 1897. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusquea Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Fossores (Sphegidae). Leipzig : G. Engelmann Vol. 8 viii 749 pp.
• De Geer, C. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. I. Orthoptères. Stockholm : P. Hosselberg Vol. 3 ii 696 pp. 44 pls.
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• Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April]
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• Faulds, W. 1978. Notes on an Australian sphecid wasp, Podalonia suspiciosa (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), now established in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 6: 312-313
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• Hensen, R.V. 1988. Revision of the nominate subgenus Chalybion Dahlbom (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 13-64
• Hensen, R.V. 1991. Notes on Australian Isodontia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Entomologische Berichten 51: 124-127
• Hensen, R.V. 1991. Review of Malesian Sphecina (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Sphecinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 134: 9-30
• Jurine, L. 1807. Nouvelle méthode de classer les Hyménoptères et les Diptères. Genève : Paschold iv 319 pp. + 1 unnumbered pp., 1–14 pl.
• Kirby, W. 1798. Ammophila, a new genus of insect in the class Hymenoptera, including the Sphex sabulosa of Linnaeus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 195-212
• Klug, J.C.F. 1801. Absonderung einiger Raupentödter und Vereinigung derselben zu einer neuen Gattung Sceliphron. Neue Schrift. Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 3: 555-566
• Kohl, F.F. 1885. Die Gattungen der Sphecinen und die palearktischen Sphex-Arten. Természetrajzi Füzetek 9: 154-207 pls 7-8
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• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. (Ed.) C.S. Sonnini. F. Dufort : Paris Vol. 3. pp. xii, 13 + 467
• Leclercq, J. 1961. Découverte d'une nouvelle Ammophile d'Espagne appartenant au groupe fallax Kohl (Hym. Sphecidae). EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 37: 211-214
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