Austrosalius Turner, 1917

Loktionov, Valery M., 2021, A review of the spider wasp genus Austrosalius Turner, 1917 (Hymenoptera Pompilidae), with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5006 (1), pp. 121-126 : 122

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.16
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5162047
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scientific name	Austrosalius Turner, 1917
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Genus Austrosalius Turner, 1917 View in CoL

Austrosalius Turner, 1917: 75 View in CoL , ♀; Pate 1946: 76; Elliot 2007: 17.

Type species. Ferreolomorpha artemis Turner, 1910 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Female. The female possesses the following characters: head small and flattened; clypeus very short; pronotum as long as mesoscutum, sometimes little longer or shorter; propodeum vertically or obliquely truncate, opaque and smooth; transverse line on S2 visible, but not deeply impressed; profemur very stout in lateral view; metatibia with small spines, not serrate dorsally. Male. Unknown.

Species included. Austrosalius artemis ( Turner, 1910) ( Australia: Queensland), A. malignus (Smith, 1858) ( Indonesia: Maluku Province: Aru islands), and A. mikhailovi Loktionov , sp. nov. ( Indonesia: West Papua Province).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland), Indonesia (Aru, West Papua) ( Turner 1917, Elliot 2007, and current data).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Pompilidae