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Ammophila beniniensis Palisot de Beauvois

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Sphecidae; Subfamily: Ammophilinae; Genus: Ammophila)

Ammophila beniniensis Palisot de Beauvois, 1806. Holotype in ? destroyed?. Type locality: Nigeria: city of Benin.

 

Classification

Distribution

 

Algeria, Central African Republic, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Palisot de Beauvois A.M.F.J. 1805-1821. Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique, dans les royaumesd’Oware et de Benin, à Saint-Domingue et dans les États-Unis, pendant les années 1786-1797. Imprimerie de Fain et Compagnie, Paris. XVI + 276 pp, 90 pls.

Dollfuss, H. 2015. Revision of the wasp genus Ammophila Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Sub-Saharan Region of Africa. Linzer biologische Beiträge 47: 307–412.

Links

CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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