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Ammophila gracillima Taschenberg
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family: Sphecidae;
Subfamily: Ammophilinae; Genus:
Ammophila)
Ammophila gracillima Taschenberg,
1869. Lectotype in Zoologisches Institut
der Martin-Luther Universität, Halle, Germany (HALLE), designated by
Menke in Bohart & Menke, 1976. Type
locality: Khartoum, Sudan.
Ammophila longicollis Kohl, 1884. Lectotype:
in Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NHMW) designated by Dollfuss 2013. Type
locality: Russia: Sarepta, now Krasnoarmeysk near Volgograd. Synonymy by Roth, 1928.
Ammophila debilis F. Morawitz, 1889. Holotype
or syntypes: in (ZIN). Type
locality: Mongolia: Tsagan Buryuk on Edsin-gol river.
Synonymy by Kohl, 1906.
Ammophila philomela Nurse 1903. Syntype: in Natural
History Musuem, London (BMNH)Type
locality: India: Gujarat: Deesa. Synonymy by Dollfuss, 2013.
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Distribution
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Ethiopia,
Sudan.
Also
Palaearctic region: Algeria, Arabia, China, Israel, Libya, Mauritania,
Mongolia, Morocco, Russia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Western
Sahara; and Oriental region: India. |
Biology
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Unknown. |
References
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Bohart, R.M. &
Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a
Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Dollfuss, H. 2013. Revision of the wasp genus Ammophila
KIRBY 1798 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Palearctic Region
and India. Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1): 383-564.
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.
Kohl F.F. 1884 (1883). Neue Hymenopteren in den Sammlungen des k.
k. zool. Hof-Cabinetes zu Wien. II. Verhandlungen der
kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologischbotanischen Gesellschaft in Wien
33: 331-386, pls. XVIIa-XVIII.
Kohl F.F. 1901. Zur Kenntnis der Sandwespen (Gen. Ammophila
Kirby). Annalen des k.k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 16:
142-164.
Kohl F.F. 1906. Die Hymenopterengruppe der Sphecinen. III.
Monographie der Gattung Ammophila W. Kirby (sens. lat. –
Ammophilinae Ashmead). Abteilung A. Die Ammophilinen der paläarktischen
Region. Annalen des k.k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 21:
228-382, pls. VII-XIII.
[plates assigned to vol. 22 and dated 1907 in bottom line note,
apparently in error; plates numbered incorrectly as pl. VII also appears
earlier in the volume]
Morawitz F. 1889. Insecta, a Cl. G.N. Potanin in China et in
Mongolia novissime lecta. IV. Hymenoptera Aculeata. Horae Societatis
Entomologicae Rossicae 23: 112-168.
Nurse C.G. 1903. New species of Indian Aculeate Hymenoptera.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 11: 511-526.
Taschenberg E.L. 1869. Die Sphegidae des zoologischen Museums der
Universität in Halle. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten
Naturwissenschaften 34: 407-435. |
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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Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums
of South Africa).
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