Sphictostethus

Sphictostethus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Family: Pompilidae
Genus: Sphictostethus
Kohl, 1884

Sphictostethus is a genus of Pepsid spider wasps which has a dispersed southern Pacific distribution which encompasses Chile, eastern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and is very similar to the distribution of the southern beeches of the genus Nothofagus.[1] The type species is S. gravesii but the genus's greatest diversity is in Australia, especially in the more humid and temperate south east with one species, S. insularis, endemic to Lord Howe Island.[2]

Species

The following is a partial list of species in the genus Sphictostethus[2]

References

  1. Harris, A. C. 1987: Pompilidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Fauna of New Zealand [no.] 12. ISBN 0-477-02501-3,
  2. 1 2 Krogmann, L. & Austin, A.D. 2011 Systematic revision of the spider wasp genus Sphictostethus Kohl (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae) in Australia with description of nine new species Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 4 105–128,
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