Species Tachysphex puncticeps Cameron, 1903

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• Tachysphex puncticeps Cameron, P. 1903. Descriptions of nineteen new species of Larridae, Odynerus and Apidae from Barrackpore. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 117-132 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀, Bengal, India.
• Tachysphex varihirtus Cameron, P. 1903. Descriptions of nineteen new species of Larridae, Odynerus and Apidae from Barrackpore. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 117-132 [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂, Barrackpore 20 km north Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
• Tachysphex rugidorsatus Turner, R.E. 1915. Notes on fossorial Hymenoptera. XVI. On the Thynnidae, Scoliidae and Crabronidae of Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 537-559 [556].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 21.216 ♀, Eaglehawk Neck, TAS.
• Tachysphex mindorensis Williams, F.X. 1928. Studies in tropical wasps — their hosts and associates (with descriptions of new species). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 19: 1-179 [92].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂, San Jose, Mindoro Island, Philippines.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pulawski, W. 1975. Synonymical notes on Larrinae and Astatinae (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 64: 308-323 [311]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, 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), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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.

General References

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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