- Zethus (Ischnocoelia) rutilus 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 [268] [replacement name; replacement name for Ischnocoelia ferruginea which becomes Zethus ferrugineus when placed in Zethus, a secondary junior homonym of Zethus ferrugineus de Saussure, 1852, (junior synonym of Zethus biglumis Spinola, 1841).].
- Elimus ferrugineus 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] [38].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), SA. - Discoelius ecclesiasticus Rayment, T. 1954. The trail of the running postman. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1952–53: 18-22 [19].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Watsonia, VIC.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- van der Vecht, J. 1981. Indo-Australian solitary wasps. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wetenschappen C 84: 443-464 [456]
- 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. [517]
Generic Combinations
- Iscnochoelia ferruginea (Meade-Waldo, 1910). —
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. [517]
Distribution
States
South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Melbourne and SA.
IBRA
SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2021. Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 4919: 001-068
Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 (redescription)
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)
Rayment, T. 1953. Pictorial biology of a leafcutter bee, Megachile chrysopyga Smith. Victorian Naturalist 70: 50-51