Species Sericophorus chalybaeus Smith, 1851

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• Sericophorus chalybeus Smith, F. 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Hymenoptera in the British Museum and other collections. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7: 28-33 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Tachyrrhostus cyaneus Saussure, H. de 1855. Mélanges hyménoptérologiques. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 14: 1-67 [26].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Sericophorus inornatus Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T7506 ♀, 'Wynyard, QLD' (possibly Wynyard, TAS was meant).
• Sericophorus lilacinus Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♀, 'Wynyard, QLD' (possibly Wynyard, TAS was meant).
• Sericophorus rufipes Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [47] [junior homonym; Zoyphium rufipes Rohwer, 1911].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, TAS.
• Sericophorus sculpturatus Rayment, T. 1955. Biology of two hunting wasps. The specific descriptions of a new species and one allotype of Sericophorus and a new blowfly Pollenia. The Australian Zoologist 12: 132-141 pl. 19 [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Busselton, WA.
• Sericophorus subviridis Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T6795 ♀, Victoria Valley, VIC.
• Sericophorus sydneyi Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV 6796 ♀, Bolgart, WA.
• Sericophorus victoriensis Rayment, T. 1955. Taxonomy, morphology and biology of sericophorine wasps. With diagnoses of two new genera and descriptions of forty new species and six subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 19: 11-105 pls 1-11 [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV 6803 ♀, Portland, VIC.
• Sericophorus raymenti 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. [302] [replacement name; Sericophorus rufipes Rayment, 1955].

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), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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)

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