Phimenes arcuatus subsp. arcuatus Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Phimenes
Phimenes arcuatus
Arcuatus arcuatus (fabricius)

description: arcuatus arcuatus (Fabricius)
Vespa arcuata Fabricius 1775: 371 —“Nova Hollandia ” (London); 1781: 467; 1787, Mant. Ins. 1: 292.— Gmelin 1790: 2753.—Olivier 1792 [1791]: 670.— Fabricius 1793: 276.— Jurine, 1807: 171.
Sphex arcuata; Christ 1791: 312 (translation of original description).
Eumenes arcuata; Fabricius 1804: 287.—de Saussure 1852: 63 (New Guinea).— Smith 1857: 29 (cat.); 1859: 163 (Kei); 1861b: 126 (arcuatus; New Guinea; Batjan).—de Saussure 1862: 179 (arcuatus).— Smith 1864a: 37 (arcuatus; Misool;Waigeu); 1865: 87 (arcuatus; Salawati); 1871: 372 (cat.) [partim].— Maindron 1882: 272 (cat.; syns.: fulvipennis Smith, flavopicta Blanchard; varieties: blanchardi de Saussure, praslinia Guérin).— Froggatt 1892: 227 (arcuatus; cat.).— Kirby 1894: 108 (Damma).— Dalla Torre 1894: 18 (cat. [incorrectly “ arcuata (Fabr.) L.”]); 1904: 21 (cat.; syn.: fulvipennis Smith).— Rudow 1904a: 196 (arcuatus; nest; New Guinea).— Zavattari 1911: 2 (arcuatus; Nuova Olanda).— Cameron 1911: 194 (arcuatus; New Guinea).— Meade-Waldo 1912: 446 (arcuatus; New Guinea).—du Buysson 1913 [1911]: 230 (Aru; Kei).— Meade-Waldo 1916 [1915]: 8.— Bequaert 1928a: 61 (arcuatus; type is female); 1928: 169 (arcuatus; typical form in key).— Giordani Soika 1935: 133 (arcuatus; in subgenus Delta; syns.: formosanus Zimmermann, continentalis Zimmermann) [partim]; 1941: 229 (arcuatus; in subgenus Delta; key).
Eumenes arcuata arcuate; Zimmermann 1931: 205, fig. 26 no. 4 (Qld.; New Britain; New Guinea).—van der Vecht 1959: 5 (key), 53, figs. 3g, 4 (35), 5n, 7 (35) (arcuatus; New Guinea; Biak; Salawati; Waigeu; Kei; Aru; Egum; Qld.: “Cape York, … Coen,” “Rocky Shrub, Mcllwraith Range,” Kuranda, “Palm Isl. to Cooktown,” “10 S Bowen,” Meringa, Mackay, Cooktown, Halifax, Kuranda); 1960: 113; 1961, Evolution 15: 469, figs. 1g, 4, 5.
Delta arcuatus; Giordani Soika 1961b: 243.— Naumann 1993, in Naumann et al.: 180 (arcuatum; Qld.: “ 15 km NE by N Heathlands H. S.”; “widespread through northern Australia from the Kimberley region to Bowen”).
Delta arcuata arcuata; Cardale 1985: 170 (cat.).— Brown 2009: 29 (N. T.: North Coast).
Phi arcuatum arcuatum; Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988: 182 (Papua New Guinea).
Phimenes arcuatus; Giordani Soika 1992: 41 (type of Phimenes, new genus).— Hermes et al. 2014: 456 (phylogenetic relationships).
Phimenes arcuatus arcuatus; Borsato 1994 [1993]: 250 (Qld.: Cairns); 1994: 169 (N. T.: “dint. di Darwin,” Litchfield N. P.); 1996: 225 (arcuatum arcuatum; Qld.: “Nervey Range, Townsville,” “Pangola Stud, Spring Creek, 40 Km S. Townsville,” Fitzroy I.); 2003: 563 (N. T.: Darwin; Qld.: Mareeba).— Nugroho et al. 2012 [2011]: 110 (list).
description: 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 page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370