Species Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1770)
- Sphex caementarium Drury, D. 1770. Illustrations of Natural History; wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects according to their genera. London : White Vol. 1 30+130 pp. 51 pls. [this work is the subject of Opinion 474, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [105].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ (lost), Jamaica. - Sphex flavomaculatus De Geer, C. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. I. Orthoptères. Stockholm : P. Hosselberg Vol. 3 ii 696 pp. 44 pls. [588].
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Syntype(s) NRS sex not indicated, Pennsylvania, USA. - Sphex lunatus 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] [347].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMUC sex not indicated, Antigua.Subsequent designation references:
van der Vecht, J. 1961. Hymenoptera Sphecoidea Fabriciana. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 48: 1-85 [42]. - Sphex flavipes Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [444].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMUC ♀, America.Subsequent designation references:
van der Vecht, J. 1961. Hymenoptera Sphecoidea Fabriciana. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 48: 1-85 [42]. - Sphex flavipunctatus Christ, J.L. 1791. Naturgeschichte, Klassification un nomenclatur der Insekten vom Beinen, Wespen un Ameisengeschlecht, als der fünften Ordnung des Linneischen Natursystems von den Insekten, Hymenoptera. Mit hätigen Flügeeln. Frankfurt–am–Main : Hermannischen Buchhandlung 535 pp. 60 pls. [In German] [301] [replacement name; Sphex caementarius Drury, 1770].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMUC sex not indicated, America.- Pelopoeus architectus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. 1845. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 pp. 646 + 4 pp., pls 25-36. [313].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ♀ (M. Spinola collection, Torino), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. - Pelopoeus servillei Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. 1845. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 pp. 646 + 4 pp., pls 25-36. [313].
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Holotype ♀ (M. Spinola collection, Torino), origin unknown. - Pelopaeus solieri Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A.L.M. 1845. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 pp. 646 + 4 pp., pls 25-36. [318].
Type data:
Holotype ♀ (M. Spinola collection, Torino), Guadeloupe. - Pelopoeus canadensis Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [233].
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Holotype BMNH ♂, Canada. - Pelopoeus nigriventris Costa, A. 1864. Acquisti fatti durante l'anno 1862. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università de Napoli 2: 8–94 [In Italian] [60].
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Holotype MZUN sex not indicated, North America. - Pelopeus [sic] tahitensis Saussure, H. de 1867. Hymenoptera. In, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 den unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Wien : K-K Hof- und Staatsdrückerei Vol. 2(1a) 138 pp. [27].
Type data:
Lectotype NHMW ♂, Otahiti, Tahiti.Subsequent designation references:
Menke A.S. in Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. [105]. - Sphex economicus Curtiss, A. 1938. A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands. New York : Self-published i-xvi, 193 pp. [154].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex not indicated, Tautira, Tahiti.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Accidentally established in Brisbane, one specimen found in crate from North America in Alice Springs, also found in Europe, the Americas and many Pacific islands.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: arboreal, predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Prey spiders, nest built of mud in sheltered place.
General References
Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. (list of synonyms, nest, biology)
Evans, H.E. & Lin, C.S. 1956. Studies on the larvae of digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) Part I Sphecinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 81: 131-153 8 pls (larva)
Naumann, I.D. 1983. The biology of mud nesting Hymenoptera (and their associates) and Isoptera in rock shelters of the Kakadu Region, Northern Territory. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service Special Publication 10: 127-189 [Date published 31/12/1983] (Alice Springs record)
van der Vecht, J. & van Breugel, F.M.A. 1968. Revision of the nominate subgenus Sceliphron Latreille (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) (Studies on the Sceliphronini, Part I). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 111: 185-255 (redescription)
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