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Sceliphron laetum

Yellow-waisted Mud-dauber

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Yellow-waisted Mud-dauber, Yellow-waisted Mud Dauber, Common Mud-dauber

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - Solomons; EXOTIC EXOTIC Pacific Islands, incl. Guam and Rarotonga

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; S.Group only - Rarotonga only; Land

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Pest - household nuisance

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
++						-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Sceliphron laetum (F.Smith 1856)
SYNONYMS: Pelopaeus laetus F. Smith, 1856

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hymenoptera; Apocrita; Aculeata; Apoidea; SPHECIDAE

More Information

GENERAL NOTE: This species established a colony in Guam after accompanying a ship from Solomons, a distance of 3,000km (Krombein, 1945b, in Kuhlmann 2006). It is therefore uncertain how much of its range is native and how much due to accidental introduction by human activities.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: FIRST RECORD, specimens, Arorangi, 2004/9, Michael Kuhlmann with ID as Sceliphron laetum; specimen+photo, Totokoitu Research Station, 7/2005, G.McCormack with ID as Sceliphron laetum; fieldspecimen+photo, Takuvaine water intake, 10/2005, G.McCormack with ID as Sceliphron laetum.

References:
Special Reference: Kuhlmann, M. (2006) Fauna and Biogeography of the Bees and Wasps of the Cook Islands (Hymenoptera Aculeata), J. Hym. Res. 15(1):26-37.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB05a, zM05b

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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