Species Williamsita bivittata (Turner, 1908)

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• Crabro bivittatus Turner, R.E. 1908. Notes on the Australian fossorial wasps of the family Sphegidae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1908: 457-535 pl. xxvi [534].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, VIC.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey adult Diptera (Calliphoridae, Stratiomyidae, Therevidae), nest in log.

General References

Evans, H.E. & Matthews, R.W. 1971. Notes on the prey and nests of some Australian Crabronini (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 1-4 (nest, prey)

Leclercq, J. 1950. Sur les Crabroniens orientaux et australiens rangés par R.E. Turner (1912–1915) dans le genre Crabro (subgenus Solenius). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 86: 191-198 (generic placement)

McCorquodale, D.B., Thomson, C.E. & Elder, V. 1989. Nest and prey of Williamsita bivittata (Turner) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Crabroninae). Australian Entomological Magazine 16(1): 5-8 (nest, prey)

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