A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Author Carpenter, James M. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, text Zootaxa 2023 2023-07-12 5315 5 401 455 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1 journal article 263436 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1 33ce411d-af49-4183-963e-08469b8e0e6f 1175-5326 8142377 A0E917F4-958C-4804-BCDF-3D7722A236CA alecto alecto (Lepeletier) Odynerus Alecto Lepeletier 1841: 647 , female—“Nouvelle Hollande ” (Paris). Rhygchium alecto ; de Saussure 1852 114.— Smith 1857: 49 ( Rhynchium ; cat.).— Maindron 1882: 281 ( Rynchium ; Moluccas )— Froggatt 1892: 228 ( Rhynchium ; cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 43 ( Rhynchium ; cat.); 1904: 33 ( Rhynchium ; cat.).—von Schulthess 1915: 50 ( Rhynchium ; New Caledonia ; Loyalty Islands ). Odynerus caledonicus “Guér. ” de Saussure 1853: 155 ( caledonus [!]; key), 205, male (in subgenus Leionotus )—“La Nouvelle-Calédonie ” (coll. Guérin-Méneville, Genova).— Smith 1857: 63 (cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 58 (cat.); 1904: 41 (subgenus Lionotus ; cat.).— Vachal 1907: 115 ( New Caledonia ).—von Schulthess 1915: 51 .— Turner 1919a: 239 ( New Caledonia ).— Williams 1945: 421 (list), 424 ( New Caledonia ).— Guiglia 1948: 177 ( type in Genova).— Giordani Soika 1958 [ 1957 ]: 209 (syn. of Pseudepipona alecto (Lepeletier) . Rygchium haemorrhoidale var. alecto ; Williams 1945: 421 (list), 424 ( New Caledonia ). Pseudepiona alecto ; Giordani Soika, 1958 [ 1957 ]: 207, fig. 2, pl. III (in subgenus Epiodynerus ). Pseudepiona alecto alecto ; Giordani Soika, 1958 [ 1957 ]: 209 (syn.: Odynerus caledonicus de Saussure ; in subgenus Epiodynerus ; New Caledonia ). Anterhynchium alecto ; van der Vecht 1963: 88 , figs. 5h, 6d (in subgenus Epiodynerus ). Epiodynerus alecto alecto ; Giordani Soika 1971: 78 ( New Caledonia ). Anterhynchium alecto alecto ; Gusenleitner & Madl 2011: 134 ( New Caledonia ; cat.).— Dal Pos et al. 2022: 31 (in subgenus Epiodynerus ; specs.).— Carpenter 2023: 9 (distr.). Distr.: New Caledonia .