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Disepyris semiruber (Kieffer)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Epyrinae;  Genus: Disepyris)

Holepyris semiruber Kieffer 1911, 457-458. Holotype: lost: should be in the Braun's Collection in Ditsong Museum, Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Le Cap: Willowmore, South Africa.

Holepyris semiruber var. striatipleura Kieffer, 1911: 458. Synonymy by Azevedo et al. 2018.

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Male

 
 

Distribution

Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

 The flat spine-shaped setae on the protarsi suggest that the species is fossorial and associated with areas where sandy, friable soils dominate (Azevedo et al. 2018).

Reference

Azevedo CO, van Noort S & Notton DG. 2018. Rediscovery of Disepyris semiruber (Kieffer) comb. nov. (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) in Southern Africa, with first description of its male. Journal of Natural History 52:23-24, 1537-1549, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1478997 https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1478997

Kieffer JJ. 1911. Cynipides et Béthylides de l’Afrique du sud (Hymenopt.). Ann. Soc. Entomol. France. 80: 451–462. 

Credits

 Photographs and 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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