splendida splendida (Guérin-Méneville)

Odynerus splendidus Guérin-Méneville 1838: 265, female [male]—“ La Nouvelle Hollande ” (holotype male Leiden).— Guérin-Méneville & Percheron 1838: pl. 5 and 3 unnumbered pages of text.

Monorebia splendida; de Saussure 1852: 99, pl. XV fig. 8 (type is male not female; redescription; “ La Tasmanie ”).— Bequaert 1926a: 192 (list).

Abispa splendida; de Saussure 1855: 169 (female).— Smith 1857: 43 (cat.); 1873b: vii (mimicry).— Roth, 1885: 323, figs. 3A–C (nest).— Froggatt 1892: 228 (cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 42 (cat.).— Froggatt 1894: 29–30 (ethology; N. S. W.: Sydney, Wellington).— Dalla Torre 1904: 29 (cat.).—? du Buysson 1913 [1911]: 230 (Aru).— Iwata, 1942: 72, 101, 120 (ethology).— Brewster et al. 1946: 137–139 (ethology).—van der Vecht 1957: 26 (note on type).

Abispa splendida splendida; van der Vecht 1960: 96 (key), 98 (in subgenus Abispa, Qld.: Cooktown, Cairns, North Queensland).— Smith & Alcock 1980: 43, 53 (ethology; N. S. W.: Pearl Beach).— Cardale 1985: 161 (cat.).— Borsato 1996: 214 (N. S. W.).— Matthews & Matthews 2004: 573–583, fig. 1 (ethology; Qld.: Magnetic Island N. P.).