Species Paralastor cruentus (Saussure, 1855)
- Odynerus (Ancistroceroides) cruentus 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)] [221].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (lost), Australia (as New Holland).
Distribution
States
South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
No locality specified.
IBRA
SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
Bequaert, J. 1925. The genus Ancistrocerus in North America, with a partial key to the species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 51: 57-117 (designation as type species of Ancistroceroides)
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1970. Opinion 893. Eumenidae names of Saussure(Hymenoptera): grant of availability to certain names proposed for secondary divisions of genera. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 26: 187-191 (placed on Official List of Specific Names)
van der Vecht, J. 1983. Ancistroceroides Saussure, proposed change of type species in order to preserve the well-established name Paralastor Saussure, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Eumenidae). Z.N.(S.) 2280. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 40: 111-113 (type lost, generic placement—see note under Paralastor)
History of changes
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