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Pristocera laticornis Kieffer

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

Pristocera laticornis Kieffer, 1913, 7: 327. Holotype: in the South African Museum, Cape Town (SANC). Type locality: "Natal" Note: May be Sebakwe, South Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe).

Mangesia brevicornis Turner, 1915, 16: 290, 293-294. Holotype: in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland (= Malawi). Junior synonym.

Taxonomy: Kieffer, 1914,41: 455, 464; Benoit, 1963, 119: 33, 41-42, figs 65, 66 a, b.

Distribution

Malawi, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

Reference

Zamprogno, L.N. & Azevedo, C.O. 2014. Phylogeny and reclassification of Pristocera Klug (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 45: 1-49.

Credits

Photographs © 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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