Species Rhynchium superbum Saussure, 1852
- Rygchium superbum Saussure, H. de 1852. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 1. Monographie des Guêpes solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Euméniens, comprenant la Classification et la Description de toutes les Espèces connues jusqu'à ce Jour, et servant de complément au Manuel de Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau. Paris : Masson 1-128 pls ii-v, vii, x, xiv. [for publication date 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 (pages and plates published)] [113].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♀ adult, Australia (as New Holland).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published locality Thursday Is., also New Guinea, Aru Ils., Key Ils and East Indies.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Prey larval Lepidoptera.
General References
Cameron, P. 1906. On the Malay fossorial Hymenoptera and Vespidae of the Museum of the R. Zool. Soc. "Natura artis magistra" at Amsterdam. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 48: 48-78 (taxonomy, distribution)
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] (distribution)
Schulz, W.A. 1904. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der papuanischen Hymenopteren-Fauna. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 49: 209-239 [Date published 31/12/1904] (taxonomy as Rhynchium mirabile superbum)
Smith, F. 1864. Notes on the geographical distribution of the aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.R. Wallace in the eastern archipelago. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 7: 109-145 (distribution)
History of changes
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