Species Sphex ephippium Smith, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphex ephippium 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. [249].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 21.706 ♀, Port Essington, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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)

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 (nest, ?prey)

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