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Gastrosericus waltlii Spinola
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(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family:
Crabronidae; Subfamily: Crabroninae; Tribe:
Larrini; Subtribe:
Gastrosericina; Genus:
Gastrosericus)
Gastrosericus waltlii
Spinola, 1839. Lectotype in Torino. Type
locality: Egypt, no specific locality.
Dinetus niger Dufour,
1854: 378. Holotype ♂, Algeria: Pontéba, now Oumm
ed Drou (MNHN). Synonymy by Pulawski, 1995.
Gastrosericus
maracandicus Radoszkowski, 1877: 23 (as
Maracandicus, incorrect original capitalization).
Holotype: ♀, Uzbekistan: Samarkand (ZMMU).
Synonymy by Pulawski, 1995.
Gastrosericus rufiventris
F. Morawitz, 1889:135. Holotype: ♀, China: Inner
Mongolian Autonomous Region: Tsagan Buryuk (ZIN).
Synonymy with Gastrosericus maracandicus by
Gussakovskij, 1931.
Gastrosericus rufitarsis
Cameron, 1902: 286. Holotype: ♂, India: Gujarat:
Deesa (BMNH). Synonymy by Pulawski, 1982.
Gastrosericus
lanuginosus Arnold, 1922. Holotype ♂ in
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC).
Type locality: Zimbabwe: Sawmills. (Lectotype
designation by Pulawski, 1995:160, based on subsequently
described non-type material, is unnecessary).
Synonymy by Pulawski, 1995.
Gastrosericus
maracandicus dubius Gussakovskij, 1931: 453.
Lectotype: ♂: Turkmenistan: Komarovskiy near
Askhabad (ZIN), designated by Pulawski in Krombein and
Pulawski, 1986:18. Synonymy by Kazenas, 1978.
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Distribution
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Angola, Chad, Ghana, Ivory
Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
Also Palaearctic: Algeria,
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, and Asia
north to Turkey and adjacent Mediterranean islands,
Armenia, and Kazakhstan, east to Mongolia and Sri Lanka
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Biology
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Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest constructed in ground or plant stems with paralyzed
adult Orthoptera, Hemiptera or Lepidoptera caterpillars for consumption
by the wasp larvae. |
References
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Arnold, G. 1922. The Sphegidae of South Africa. Part I. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 9:101-138.
Brauns, H. 1899.
Zur Kenntnis der südafrikanischen Hymenopteren. Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus, Wien,
13: 382-423.
Brauns, H. 1906. Zur Kenntnis der südafrikanischen Hymenopteren, II. Verh.
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 56: 43-59.
Brauns, H. 1911. Die Nysson-Arten Südafrikas. Kaplande (Willomore).
Bohart, R.M. &
Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a
Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and
evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and
Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.
Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp.
279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World:
an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture
Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014. Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI
Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute,
Pretoria. 320 pp.
Pulawski, W.J. 1995.
The wasp genus Gastrosericus Spinola, 1839 (Hymenoptera:
Sphecidae). Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 18:
1-173.
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15652419 |
Links
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CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE
sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences). |
Credits
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Photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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