Species Tachysphex depressiventris Turner, 1916

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• Tachysphex depressiventris Turner, R.E. 1916. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XX. On some Larrinae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 17: 248-259 [256].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Yallingup, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W. 1977. A synopsis of Tachysphex Kohl (Hym., Sphecidae) of Australia and Oceania. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 47: 203-332 [270].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey Blattodea (Blattellidae) (cockroaches).

General References

Alcock, J. 1980. Notes on the reproductive behaviour of some Australian solitary wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Tachysphex and Exeirus). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 259-262 (nest, prey)

Evans, H.E., Matthews, R.W. & Pulawski, W. 1976. Notes on the nests and prey of four Australian species of Tachysphex Kohl, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 441-445 (nest, prey)

McCorquodale, D.B. & Thomson, C.E. 1989. The prey of some Australian sphecid wasps (Hymenoptera). Australian Entomological Magazine 16(4): 93-97 [94] (prey)

Pulawski, W. 1977. A synopsis of Tachysphex Kohl (Hym., Sphecidae) of Australia and Oceania. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 47: 203-332 (redescription)

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