Species Pseudabispa paragioides (Meade-Waldo, 1910)
- Abispa paragioides 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] [49].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Port Darwin, NT.
Generic Combinations
- Pseudabispa paragiodes (Meade-Waldo, 1910). —
van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115
Introduction
Borsato (2003) assigns the specimens collected in the Northern Territory to this species, but he could not compare them with the type. To be noted that the original description by Meade Waldo was made on two male specimens collected at Port Darwin, NT, while he found some colouration differences when comparing with the determination table in van der Vecht (1960).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution 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. [537]
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
van der Vecht, J. 1960. On Abispa and some other Eumenidae from the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 6: 91-115 (generic placement)