Species Sericophorus relucens Smith, 1856

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• Sericophorus relucens 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. [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Zoyphium rufipes Rohwer, S.A. 1911. Descriptions of new species of wasps with notes on described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 40(1837): 551-587 [585].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 13767 ♀, Duaringa, Dawson district, QLD.
• Sericophorus carinatus 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 [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV 6776 ♀, Sandringham, VIC.
• Sericophorus relucens nigricornis 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 [43].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♀, 25 miles east of Durham Downs, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lomholdt, O. & Pulawski, W.J. 2010. A revision of the wasp genus Sericophorus F. Smith, 1851 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Series 4 61: 1-234 [166].
• Sericophorus relucens ruficornis 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 [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV 6805 ♀, Tennant Creek, NT.
• Sericophorus rufobasalis 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 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (lost), Brisbane, QLD.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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