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Parapsammophila Taschenberg
 

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

Parapsammophila Taschenberg, 1869
 

Parapsammophila consobrina (Arnold, 1928) (South Africa)

 

Parapsammophila errabunda (Kohl, 1901) (Ethiopia, Somalia)

Parapsammophila herero (Arnold, 1928) (Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe)

Parapsammophila ludovicus (F.Smith, 1856) (Angola, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo)
 

Parapsammophila ponderosa (Gerstaecker, 1871) (Kenya, Tanzania)

Parapsammophila testaceipes (R.Turner, 1918) (Tanzania)

Parapsammophila unguicularis (Kohl, 1901) (Mozambique)

Distribution

Old World: Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Unknown.

References

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.

Menke, A.S. 1966. The genera of the Ammophilini (Hymenoptera; Sphecidae). The Canadian Entomologist 98: 147-152.

Links

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

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town).


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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