Species Sphodrotes punctuosa Kohl, 1889

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphodrotes punctuosa Kohl, F.F. 1889. Neue Gattungen aus der Hymenopteren-Familie der Sphegiden. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 4: 188-196 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMW ♂, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey Hemiptera.

General References

Lomholdt, O. 1983. A revision of Sphodrotes Kohl, 1889 (Hymenoptera, Sphecoidea, Larridae). Steenstrupia 9: 85-116 (redescription, distribution)

Turner, R.E. 1914. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XIII. A revision of the Paranyssoninae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 337-359 (redescription)

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