Species Zethus (Ischnocoelia) elongatus (Saussure, 1855)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Discoelius elongatus Saussure, H. de 1855. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. Troisième Partie comprenant la Monographie des Masariens et un Supplément à la Monographie des Eumeniens. Paris : Masson 49-288 pls vi-xiv. [Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (dates pages and plates published)] [124 pl. vi fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ♀ adult (may be in BMNH), SA (as Australie méridionale).

Generic Combinations

• Ischnocoelia elongata (Saussure, 1855). —
  Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 [25, 71] (new combination)
• Zethus (Ischnocoelia) elongatus (Saussure, 1855). —
  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, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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

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.

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

Giordani Soika, A. 1962. Gli Odynerus sensu antiquo del continente australiano e della Tasmania. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 14(1961): 57-202 (taxonomy as Pseudozethus elongatus)

Giordani Soika, A. 1969. Revisione dei Discoeliinae Australiani. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 19: 25-100 (redescription, generic placement)

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