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Pristocera ruficaudata Westwood

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

Pristocera ruficaudata Westwood, 1874, 165, pl XXIX, fig 4. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: "Natalia"

Pristerocera ruficauda (junior synonym) Dalla Torre 1898, 5: 562. Holotype: unknown Type locality: unknown

Pristocera cambouei (junior synonym) Saussure 1892, 20: pl 27, fig 14. Holotype: in Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva. Type locality: Madagascar

Note: Species figured without description. Characterized by Schult as subspecies of P. ruficaudata.

Taxonomy: Kieffer 1908, 76: 22 (catalog); Schulz 1911, 4: 77, 78-81; Turner 1914, 16: 290; Kieffer 1914, 41: 456, 462, 470; Turner 1928, 1: 142; Benoit 1963, 119: 34, 52-54,fig 84, 85.

Distribution

Madagascar, South Africa.

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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