A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

Abstract. The Australian species of the sphecid wasp genus Sphex are revised. Thirty-five species are recognized, of which 11 are new: Sphex argentatissimus, Sphex brevipetiolus, Sphex caelebs, Sphex corporosus, Sphex flammeus, Sphex fortunatus, Sphex gracilis, Sphex imporcatus, Sphex jucundus, Sphe...

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Autores principales: Dörfel, Thorleif H., Ohl, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
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Monograph
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448718
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.521.5995
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description Abstract. The Australian species of the sphecid wasp genus Sphex are revised. Thirty-five species are recognized, of which 11 are new: Sphex argentatissimus, Sphex brevipetiolus, Sphex caelebs, Sphex corporosus, Sphex flammeus, Sphex fortunatus, Sphex gracilis, Sphex imporcatus, Sphex jucundus, Sphex latilobus and Sphex pretiosus. A dichotomous key covering all Australian species of the genus has been generated. The geographic distribution of all species is discussed based on all available locality records in relation to the Australian climate zones.
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spelling pubmed-45917162015-10-07 A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) Dörfel, Thorleif H. Ohl, Michael Zookeys Monograph Abstract. The Australian species of the sphecid wasp genus Sphex are revised. Thirty-five species are recognized, of which 11 are new: Sphex argentatissimus, Sphex brevipetiolus, Sphex caelebs, Sphex corporosus, Sphex flammeus, Sphex fortunatus, Sphex gracilis, Sphex imporcatus, Sphex jucundus, Sphex latilobus and Sphex pretiosus. A dichotomous key covering all Australian species of the genus has been generated. The geographic distribution of all species is discussed based on all available locality records in relation to the Australian climate zones. Pensoft Publishers 2015-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4591716/ /pubmed/26448718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.521.5995 Text en Thorleif H. Dörfel, Michael Ohl http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
title A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
title_full A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
title_fullStr A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
title_full_unstemmed A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
title_short A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
title_sort revision of the australian digger wasps in the genus sphex (hymenoptera, sphecidae)
topic Monograph
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591716/
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