''Sphictostethus'' is a genus of
pepsine spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-ne ...
s which has a dispersed southern Pacific distribution which encompasses
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
, eastern
Australia,
Tasmania
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, and
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
, and is very similar to the distribution of the southern beeches of the genus ''
Nothofagus
''Nothofagus'', also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Gui ...
''.
The
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
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
Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland P ...
.
Species
The species in the genus ''Sphictostethus'' include:
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Sphictostethus aliciae''
(Turner, 1914)
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Sphictostethus calvus''
Harris 1987
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Sphictostethus connectens''
(Turner, 1915)
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Sphictostethus dorrigoensis''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus flaviceρs''
(Guérin, 1830)
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Sphictostethus fugax''
(Fabricus 1775)
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Sphictostethus gadali''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus geevestoni''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus gravesii''
(Haliday, 1837)
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Sphictostethus haoae''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus infandus''
(Smith, 1868)
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Sphictostethus insularis''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus minus''
(Kohl, 1905)
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Sphictostethus montanus''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
*''
Sphictostethus nitidus''
Fabricius 1775 golden hunter wasp
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Sphictostethus obscurus''
(Sielfeld, 1973)
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Sphictostethus picadillycircus''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus thaumastarius''
(Kohl, 1905)
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Sphictostethus walteri''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
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Sphictostethus xanthochrous''
(Turner, 1915)
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Sphictostethus xanthopus''
(Spinola, 1851)
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Sphictostethus yidyam''
Krogmann & Austin 2011
References
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Hymenoptera genera
Pepsinae