Genus Telostegus Costa, 1887

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• Telostegus Costa, A. 1887. Prospetto degli Imenotteri Italiani da servire di Prodromo di Imenotterologia Italiana. Parte Seconda. Pompilidei, Dolicuridei, Scoliidei, Sapigidei, Tifiidei e Mutillidei. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università de Napoli 6: 28–83 [In Italian] [88] (there is some dispute in the literature over the page number that this genus was described on i.e. 88 or 89. [Elliott 2007] was unable to obtain the refence and thus is unable to provide a solution).

  Type species:

   Aporus major Costa, 1881 by monotypy.
• Elaphrosyron Haupt, H. 1929. Weiterer Ausbau meines Systems der Psammocharidae. Mit Beischreibung neuer Gattungen und Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 15: 109–197 [In German] [120].

  Type species:

   Elaphrosyron heinrichi Haupt, 1930 by subsequent designation, see Haupt, H. 1930. Psammocharidae aus Persien, Kleinasien und dem engeren Mittelmeergebiet. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 15(3–4): 583–606 [In German] [597].
• Protelostegus Priesner, H. 1955. A review of the Pompilidae of Egypt. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte 39: 1–208 [167].

  Type species:

   Protelostegus arnoldi Priesner, 1955 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, H.E. 1972. A review of the Australian species of Elaphrosyron and Telostegus, with notes on other genera (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 386: 1–18 [2]
• Wahis, R. 2000. Hyménoptères aculéates du Yemen (Pompilidae, Vespidae). Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 41: 73–100 [In French] [93] (synonymised Elaphrosyron Haupt, 1929 with Telostegus. Consequently, the single species of Elaphrosyron recorded from Australia is here listed under Telostegus)

Distribution

States

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

General References

Evans, H.E. 1972. Revision of the Australian and New Guinean species of Epipompilus (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Pacific Insects 14(1): 101–131 [2, 4] (Elaphrosyron [2]: description, figure, Australian sp. Telostegus: description, figures, Australian spp.)

Naumann, I.D. 1991. Hymenoptera (Wasps, bees, ants, sawflies) 58. Pompilidae. pp. 974–976 in Naumann, I.D. (ed.). The Insects of Australia. Carlton : Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Canberra and Melbourne University Press. [975] (Elaphrosyron, Telostegus: prey)

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