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Heterogyna madecassa Day

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Heterogynaidae; Genus: Heterogyna)

Heterogyna madecassa Day, 1984. Holotype: in Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Madagascar: Toliara: Bereboka.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Day, M.C. 1984. The enigmatic genus Heterogyna Nagy (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae; Heterogyninae). Systematic Entomology 9: 293–307.

Ohl, M. & Bleidorn, C. 2006. The phylogenetic position of the enigmatic wasp family Heterogynaidae based on molecular data, with description of a new, nocturnal species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Systematic Entomology 31: 321–337. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00313.x

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