Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 [91]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Borsato (2003) reports of a `I. robusta morpha a' from northern Queensland (Georgetown), central-northern NSW as well as a specimen generically labelled `Victoria'.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Ischnocoelia robusta aurantiaca Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 [91].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, Balladonia, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

History of changes

• Elimus robustus Meade-Waldo, G. 1910. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 30-51 [Jan. 1910] [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), SA.
• Stenolabus vulneratus Schulthess-Rechberg, A. von 1910. Über einige neue und weniger bekannte Eumeniden (Vespiden, Hymenoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1910: 187-192 [Mar. 1910] [191].

  Type data:

   Lectotype GMNH ♀ adult, Adelaide, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100.
• Ischnocoelia robusta analis Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 [91] [Borsato (2003) argued that this subspecies might be synonym of the nominate one, given that specimens of both taxa are present in the same locality in WA (see also Giordani Soika 1969). Carpenter & Brown (2021) subsequently synonymised the species.].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂ adult, Marloo Station, Wurarga, WA.

  Secondary source:

   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. [528]; Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2021. Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 4919: 001-068 [14] (synonymy).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Meade-Waldo, G. 1914. Notes on the Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 450-464 [Date published 31/12/1914] [459]

Generic Combinations

• Ischnocoelia robusta (Meade-Waldo, 1910). —
  Meade-Waldo, G. 1914. Notes on the Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 450-464 [Date published 31/12/1914] [459] (new combination)
• Zethus (Ischnocoelia) robustus (Meade-Waldo, 1910). —
  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)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Adelaide, Marloo Station, Wurarga, King George Sound, Youanni, Mt. Linden, Comet Vale, Georgetown, North Bourke and Mount Boppy.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

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. (Reported as Ischnocoelia robusta "morpha a")

Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 44-54 (generic placement)

History of changes

• Ischnocoelia robusta unicolor Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 [92].

  Type data:

   Holotype AGS ♀ adult, Central Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

The Holotype has no collecting locality specified in its label. WA specimens are reported by Borsato (2003)

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey larval Lepidoptera.

History of changes