Bibliography for Sphecinae

• André, E. 1888. Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe & d'Algérie. Les Sphégiens Chez l'auteur, Beaune Vol. 3 pp. 340 + 30 pp., XV pls.
• Arnold, G. 1945. The Sphecidae of Madagascar. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press pp. 193.
• Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Stockholm : Typis Gadelianis 4 unnumbered + 138 pp. [In Latin]
• Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1963. A reclassification of the Sphecinae with a revision of the Nearctic species of the tribes Sceliphronini and Sphecini (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 30: 91-182
• Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp.
• Chandler, L.G. 1928. Notes on two grasshopper-wasps. Victorian Naturalist 45: 176-181
• Christ, J.L. 1791. Naturgeschichte, Classification und Nomenclatur der Insecten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht. Frankfurt-am-Main : Hermann 535 pp. 60 pls.
• Common, I.F.B. 1948. The yellow-winged locust, Gastrimargus musicus Fabr., in central Queensland. Queensland Journal of Agricultural Science 5: 153-219
• Costa, A 1858. Fauna del Regno di Napoli ossia Enumerazione di tutti gli Animali che abitano le diverse Regioni di questo Regno e le Acque che le bagnano e Descrizione de 'nuovi o poco esattemente conosciuti con Figure ricevute de Originali viventi e dipinte al naturale. Imenotteri Aculeati. Gaetano Sautto, Napoli. pp. 1-28, pls I-III
• Costa, A. 1858. Ricerche Entomologiche sopra i Monti Partenii Nel Principato Ulteriore. Napoli pp. 29, 1 pl.
• Costa, A. 1864. Specie immesse per effetto di doni o cambii. R. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università de Napoli 2: 94-118
• Dahlbom, A.G. 1843. 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.
• Dörfel, T.H. & Ohl, M. 2015. A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). ZooKeys 521: 1-104
• Evans, H.E., Hook, A.W. & Matthews, R.W. 1982. Nesting behaviour of Australian wasps of the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Journal of Natural History 16: 219-225
• 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
• Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum : Secundum; Ordines, Genera, Species, Adjectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Brunsvigae : Carolum Reichard xiv 439 pp.
• Fernald, H.T. 1905. The type of the genus Sphex. Entomological News 16: 163-166
• Gribodo, G. 1894. Hymenopterorum novorum diagnoses praecursoriae. Miscellanea Entomologica 2: 2-3, 22-23
• Hacker, H. 1913. Some field notes on Queensland insects. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 2: 96-100
• 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
• Kohl, F.F. 1885. Die Gattungen der Sphecinen und die palearktischen Sphex-Arten. Természetrajzi Füzetek 9: 154-207 pls 7-8
• Kohl, F.F. 1890. Die Hymenopterengruppe der Sphecinen. I Monographie der natürlichen Gattung Sphex Linné (sens. lat.). Abt. I–II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 5: 77-194, 317-462
• Kohl, F.F. 1895. Zur Monographie der natürlichen Gattung Sphex Linné. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 10: 42-74
• 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.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
• Matsumura, S. 1912. Thousand insects of Japan. Supplement IV. Tokyo : Keisei–sha pp. 247 + plates XLII–LV.
• McCorquodale, D.B. & Thomson, C.E. 1989. The prey of some Australian sphecid wasps (Hymenoptera). Australian Entomological Magazine 16(4): 93-97
• Pagliano, G. 2003. On some Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) from Australia. pp. 503-510 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp.
• Patton, W.H. 1881. Some characters useful in the study of the Sphecidae. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 20: 378-385
• Pérez, J. 1905. Hyménoptères recueillis dans le Japon central, par M. Harmand, ministre plénipotentiaire de France à Tokio. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle Belgrade 1905: 23-39, 79-87, 148-158
• Rayment, T. 1946. Habits of a sphegid wasp (Sphex canescens). Victorian Naturalist 63: 185
• Reed, E. 1894. Los fosores o avispas cavadoras. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 85: 599-653
• Ribi, W.A. 1978. A unique hymenopteran compound eye, the retina fine structure of the digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 100: 299-342
• Ribi, W.A. & Ribi, L. 1979. Natural history of the Australian digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Journal of Natural History 13: 693-701
• Rossi, P. 1790. Fauna Etrusca sistens Insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Tomus primus. Liburni : T. Masi & Sociorum xxii + 348 pp.
• 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
• 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.
• Saussure, H. de 1869. Hyménoptères divers du Musée Godeffroy. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 30: 53-64
• 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.
• Smith, F. 1859. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 3: 132-178 [Date published 1 Feb. 1859]
• Smith, F. 1860. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace in the Islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyne, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 4(suppl.): 93-143 pl. 1 [18 July 1860]
• Smith, F. 1862. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace in the islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 6: 36-66
• Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868]
• Smith, F. 1873. Natural history notices. Insects, Hymenoptera Aculeata. 456-463 pls xliii-xlv in Brenchley, J.L. (ed.). Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London : Longmans, Green & Co. [Date published 31/12/1873]
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• Taschenberg, E. 1869. Die Sphegidae des zoologischen Museums der Universität Halle. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 34: 407-435
• Tsuneki, K. 1963. Comparative studies on the nesting biology of the genus Sphex (s.l.) in East Asia (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Memoirs. Faculty of Liberal Arts. Fukui University. (2, Nat. Sci.) 13: 13-78
• Turner, R.E. 1908. Notes on the Australian fossorial wasps of the family Sphegidae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1908: 457-535 pl. xxvi
• Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial wasps of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253-356
• Turner, R.E. 1910. New fossorial Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910: 407-429 pl. 50
• Turner, R.E. 1912. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. IX. On some new species from the Australian and Austro-Malayan regions. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 48-63
• Turner, R.E. 1915. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XV. New Australian Crabronidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 62-96
• Vachal, J. 1908. Deuxième note sur les Hyménoptères de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Revue d'Entomologie publiée par la Société Française d'Entomologie, Caen 27: 23-26
• Van der Linden, P.L. 1827. Observations sur les Hyménoptères d'Europe de la famille des fouisseurs. Part 1. Mémoirs. Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux–Arts de Belgique 4: 271-367
• van der Vecht, J. 1957. The Sphecoidea of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Hym.). 1. Sphecinae. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 68: 358-372
• van der Vecht, J. 1973. Contribution to the taxonomy of the Oriental and Australian Sphecini (Hymenoptera, Sphecoidea). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wetenschappen c 76: 341-353
• van der Vecht, J. & Krombein, K.V. 1955. The subspecies of Sphex sericeus (Fabr.) (=S. aurulentus auct., nec Fabr. 1787) (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Idea 10: 33-43

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