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Pararrhynchium de Saussure 1855

Description

Genus Pararrhynchium de Saussure

Pararrhynchium de Saussure 1855: 173, division of genus Rhynchium Spinola.

Type species: Rynchium ornatum Smith 1852, by monotypy.

Prorhynchium de Saussure 1855: 174, division of genus Rhynchium Spinola.

Type species: Rhynchium smithii de Saussure 1855, by monotypy.

Prorrhynchium de Saussure 1856: 8 (Table des Matières), 348 (Index) (incorrect spelling of Prorhynchium de Saussure).

Pararhynchium de Saussure 1862: 182; Giordani Soika 1973b: 122; Giordani Soika 1986b: 77, 79; Giordani Soika 1986c: 141 (incorrect spelling of Pararrhynchium de Saussure).

Parrhynchium Dalla Torre 1894: 42 (subgenus of Rhynchium Spinola; incorrect spelling of Pararrhynchium de Saussure) [erroneously gives de Saussure 1862, as the first reference].

Lissodynerus Giordani Soika 1993b: 135, genus; reference to Lissodynerus Giordani Soika 1973, and Trichodynerus Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988. NEW SYNONYMY.

Type species: Odynerus septemfasciatus Smith 1857, by original designation.

Note: Redescribed as a “new” genus by Giordani Soika 1994: 301.

Lissodynerus Giordani Soika 1973b: 119, used as generic name for Odynerus septemfasciatus var. feanus Giordani Soika 1941. Unavailable under Article 13.1.1 of the Code. NEW SYNONYMY.

Trichodynerus Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988: 178, used as a generic name in the combination Trichodynerus agilis cursor Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988. Unavailable under Article 13.1.1 of the Code. NEW SYNONYMY.

Taxonomy: van der Vecht 1963a: 94 (synonymy).— Giordani Soika 1994: 302–305 (key to Lissodynerus species).— Kim and Yamane, 2007: 64 (Pararrhynchium cat.).— Kumar et al. 2015: 7667 (Lissodynerus checklist).

Distribution: Primarily Oriental Region, with a few species in Australia and the Palearctic.

Ethology: No reports on the Australian species. Elsewhere species have been reported to nest in reeds or bamboo, and both mass and progressive provisioning are known.

Notes

Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
de Saussure
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Pararrhynchium
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pararrhynchium Saussure, 1855 sec. Carpenter & Brown, 2021

References

  • Saussure, H. de (1862) Sur divers Vespides asiatiques et africains du Musee de Leyden. Entomologische Zeitung, 23 (4 - 6), 177 - 207.
  • Giordani Soika, A. (1973 b) Notulae vespidologicae XXXV. Descrizione di nuovi Eumenidi. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 24, 97 - 131.
  • Giordani Soika, A. (1986 b) Notulae vespidologicae XIVI. Nuovi eumenidi indomalesi Lavori della Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, 11, 77 - 82.
  • Giordani Soika, A. (1986 c) Eumenidi di Okinawa e delle Filippine raccolti da J. Kojima. Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 35, 67 - 89.
  • Dalla Torre, K. W. (1894) Catalogus Hymenopterorum 9. Vespidae (Diploptera). G. Engelmann, Leipzig, 181 pp.
  • Giordani Soika, A. (1993 b) Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi dell'Australia e della Nuova Guinea (Hym. Vespoidea). Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 42, 125 - 149.
  • Giordani Soika, A. & Kojima, J. (1988) Eumeninae wasps collected in Papua New Guinea by J. Kojima (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 38, 175 - 182.
  • Smith, F. (1857) Catalogue of Hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. Taylor and Francis, London, 147 pp.
  • Giordani Soika, A. (1994) Ricerche sistematiche su alcuni generi di eumenidi della regione orientale e della Papuasia (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale " Giacomo Doria ", 90, 1 - 348.
  • Giordani Soika, A. (1941) Studi sui Vespidi Solitari. Bollettino della Societa Veneziana di Storia Naturale, 2 (3), 130 - 280.
  • Vecht, J. van der (1963 a) Studies on Indo-Australian and East Asiatic Eumenidae (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 60, 1 - 116.
  • Kim, J. - K. & Yamane, S. (2007) Description of a new species of Pararrhynchium Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Taiwan with a catalogue of the Pararrhynchium species. Zootaxa, 1556 (1), 61 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1556.1.4
  • Kumar, P. G., Srinivasan, G. & Carpenter, J. M. (2015) A new species of Lissodynerus Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Rutland Island, southern Andaman, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7 (10), 7664 - 7667. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / JoTT. o 4022.7664 - 7