Species Sphex bilobatus Kohl, 1895

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphex bilobatus Kohl, F.F. 1895. Zur Monographie der natürlichen Gattung Sphex Linné. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 10: 42-74 [59].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♀♂, Adelaide, SA.
• Sphex canescens 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. [246] [junior homonym; Sphex canescens Scopoli, 1786].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀♂, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, R.E. 1910. Additions to our knowledge of the fossorial wasps of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 253-356 [346]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey Orthoptera (Tettigoniidae).

General References

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 (biology)

Rayment, T. 1946. Habits of a sphegid wasp (Sphex canescens). Victorian Naturalist 63: 185 (biology)

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