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Ammophila rubripes Spinola

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

Ammophila rubripes Spinola, 1839. Lectotype ♀ in Torino. Type locality: no specific locality, Egypt.

Ammophila bonaespei Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845. Lectotype ♀ in Torino. Type locality: South Africa: Cape Province: Cape of Good Hope. Synonymy by Dollfuss, 2015.

Ammophila ferrugineipes Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845. Holotype or syntypes: originally in J. Serville collection, now Torino. Type locality: South Africa: Cape of Good Hope. Synonymy by Dollfuss, 2015.

Ammophila rubriceps Taschenberg, 1869. Syntypes: in Zoologisches Institut der Martin-Luther Universität, Halle, Germany. Type locality: South Africa: Cape Province: no specific locality. Synonymized with Ammophila bonaespei by Menke in Bohart & Menke 1976.

Ammophila propinqua Taschenberg, 1869. Holotype or syntypes: in Zoologisches Institut der Martin-Luther Universität, Halle, Germany. Type locality: Sudan: Khartum. Synonymized with Ammophila rubripes by Guiglia, 1948, synonymy confirmed by de Beaumont, 1952.

Ammophila syriaca Mocsáry, 1883. Holotype: (TMB). Type locality: Syria: no specific locality. Synonymized with Ammophila propinqua by Kohl, 1906.

Ammophila erythrospila Cameron, 1905. Holotype or syntypes: in Albany Museum, Grahamstown (AMG). Type locality: South Africa: Table Farm.  Synonymized with Sphex bonaespei ferrugineipes by Arnold, 1920.

Ammophila dunbrodyensis Cameron, 1905. Holotype or Syntypes: in Natural History Musuem, London (BMNH). Type locality: South Africa: Cape Province: Dunbrody. Synonymized with Sphex bonaespei ferrugineipes by R. Turner, 1919.

Ammophila meruensis Cameron, 1908. Lectotype: (NRS). Type locality: Tanzania: Mt. Kilimanjaro: Kibonoto. Synonymized with Sphex bonaespei ferrugineipes by Arnold, 1928, synonymy confirmed Dollfuss, 2015.

Ammophila rufipes var. obscura Bischoff, 1912. Lectotype: (ZMB). Type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: Mwambi on Ituri River. Synonymy by Dollfuss, 2015.

Ammophila dantoni Roth in Nadig, 1933. Holotype: originally in Nadig collection, now Zürich. Type locality: Morocco: no specific locality (female synonymized with Ammophila rubripes by Dollfuss, 2013, male synonymized with Ammophila erminea by Dollfuss, 2013).

Classification

Distribution

Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Also Palaearctic region: Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Morocco.

Biology

Nest provisioned with caterpillars.

References

Arnold, G. 1920. A revision of the South African species of the genus Sphex Linn. (olim Ammophila Kirby). Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 18 (2):25-55, 2 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

Photographs by Sandy Sauls © 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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