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Issue: Vol. 3736 No. 1: 11 Nov. 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-11-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3736.1.1
Page range: 001–053
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Review of the hymenopteran fauna of New Caledonia with a checklist of species

Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Germany
Natural Environments Program, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia Environmental Futures Centre and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
Hymenoptera wasps bees ants Australia New Zealand south-west Pacific biogeography

Abstract

The hymenopteran fauna of New Caledonia is reviewed and compared with that of Australia and New Zealand, as well as other islands in the south-west Pacific. In conclusion, several different scenarios (e.g., recent dispersal events and radiations) can be used to explain the extant distribution of New Caledonian Hymenoptera. A detailed checklist of 409 species and subspecies of Hymenoptera of New Caledonia is provided, along with estimates of the undescribed fauna, and a summary of the general biology of the families represented in the region.