Species Pison marginatum Smith, 1856

Museums

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• Pison marginatum Smith, F. 1856. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV, Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. London : British Museum pp. 207-497. [314].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Hunter River, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639].
• Pison pallidipalpe Smith, F. 1863. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A.R. Wallace in the islands of Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou, Bouru and Timor. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 7: 6–48 [Date published March 1863] [35].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Seram Is., Indonesia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639].
• Pison tahitense Saussure, H. de 1867. Hymenoptera. In, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 den unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Wien : K-K Hof- und Staatsdrückerei Vol. 2(1a) 138 pp. [65].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♀, Tahiti.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639].
• Pison hospes Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of new species of aculeate Hymenoptera collected by the Rev. Thos. Blackburn in the Sandwich Islands. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14: 674-685 [676].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Hawaiian Islands.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂, Hawaiian Islands.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639].
• Pison strenuum Turner, R.E. 1916. Notes on the wasps of the genus Pison, and some allied genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1916: 591-629 [606].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Yallingup, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 6♂, 5♀, Yallingup, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639].
• Pison fraterculus Turner, R.E. 1916. Notes on the wasps of the genus Pison, and some allied genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1916: 591-629 [610].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Mackay, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1♂, 1♀, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639].
• Pison palauense Yasumatsu, K. 1937. Sphecoidea of Micronesia (Hymenoptera). Mushi 9: 129-134, pl. 10 [133] [nomen nudum].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pulawski, W.J 2018. A Revision of the Wasp Genus Pison Jurine, 1808 of Australia and New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 65(Supplement III): 1-584 [267, Figures 629-639]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murchison (MUR), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Prey spiders, nest using mud in pre-existing cavity in wood (trap nest).

General References

Evans, H.E., Matthews, R.W. & Hook, A. 1981. Notes on the nests and prey of six species of Pison in Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 87: 221-230 (nest, prey)

Naumann, I.D. 1990. The aculeate wasps and bees (Hymenoptera) of Norfolk and Philip Islands. Australian Entomological Magazine 17(1): 17-28 [25] (distribution)

Smithers, C.N. 1998. A species list and bibliography of the insects recorded from Norfolk Island. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum No. 13: 1-52 [46] (distribution)

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