Subspecies Zethus (Ischnocoelia) occidentalis occidentalis Giordani Soika, 1969
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Subspecies Zethus (Ischnocoelia) occidentalis occidentalis Giordani Soika, 1969
- Ischnocoelia occidentalis Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 [82].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Dedari, WA.
Paratype(s) MSNVE 5 specimens, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Zethus (Ischnocoelia) occidentalis (Giordani Soika, 1969). —
Lopes, R.B., Carpenter, J.M. & Noll, F.B. 2021. Cladistic analysis of Zethus Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae): a new subgeneric classification. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82: 253-283 [App. 3 Species list] (new combination)
Introduction
Borsato (2003) provides comments on 5 specimens in the Museum of Venice (Italy) labelled as paratypes collected in different localities in Queensland, that might not belong either to the nominal form or the subspecies blumburyensis: he noted they "[...] differed immediately for a minor extension of the spots, the tendency of being yellow and not ferrugineous brown, and non the least for importance, the males had a coarse puncturation on the clypeus much more intense and impressed than in the specimens of Western Australia. At a careful examination of the genitalia, the aedeagus keeps an almost identical shape, whereas there is a slight difference in the appendix of the basivolsella".
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Merredin, Dedari and Batchelor.
IBRA
NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Central Arnhem (CA), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
Borsato, W. 1994. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi e dei Vespidi Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 125(3): 245-251 [published 31 Jan. 1994; publication dated 1993] [245] (distribution)
Borsato, W. 2003. Studies on Australian Eumenidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). pp. 511-565 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [525]