Genus Spilomena Shuckard, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spilomena Shuckard, W.E. 1838. Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 68-82 pl. viii [79] [replacement name; Celia Shuckard, 1837].
• Celia Shuckard, W.E. 1837. Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera; comprising a description of all the British species of burrowing sand wasps contained in the metropolitan collections; with their habits as far as they have been observed. London : Shuckard xii 259 pp. [182] [junior homonym; Celia Zimmermann, 1832].

  Type species:

   Stigmus troglodytes Van der Linden, 1829 by original designation.
• Microglossa Rayment, T. 1930. Microglossa and Melitribus, new genera of Australian bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 42: 211-220 pl. 21 [212] [junior homonym; Microglossa Voight, 1831].

  Type species:

   Microglossa longifrons Rayment, 1930 by original designation.
• Microglossella Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sydney : Endeavour Press 750 pp. [634] [replacement name; Microglossa Rayment, 1930].
• Taialia Tsuneki, K. 1971. Studies on the Formosan Sphecidae (XIII). A supplement to the subfamily Pemphredoninae (Hym.) with a key to the Formosan species. Etizenia 57: 1-21 [10].

  Type species:

   Taialia formosana Tsuneki, 1971 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. Berkeley : Univ. California Press ix 695 pp. [41]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Dollfuss, H. 1983. The taxonomic value of male genitalia of Spilomena Shuckard, 1838, from the Palearctic Region (excl. Japan) (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Entomofauna 4(22): 349-370 (male genitalia of Palaearctic species)

Vardy, C.R. 1987. The New Zealand fauna of the thrips-hunting solitary wasp genus Spilomena Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Systematic Entomology 12: 249-256 (revision of New Zealand species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-May-2012		03-May-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		13-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)