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Tuberepyris codex Azevedo & Mugrabi

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

Tuberepyris codex Azevedo & Mugrabi, 2014. Holotype in Iziko South African Musuem, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: 13km from Kirkwood, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Azevedo, C.O. & Mugrabi, D.F. 2014.Three new species of Tuberepyris Lanes et Azevedo (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with amended diagnosis of the genus. Zootaxa 3794 (4): 556–564. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3794.4.6

Lanes, G.O. & Azevedo, C.O. 2008. Phylogeny and taxonomy of Sclerodermini (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae, Epyrinae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 39: 55–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631208788784165 

Mugrabi, D.F & Azevedo, C.O. 2010. Insecta, Hymenoptera, Bethylidae: range extension and filling gaps in Madagascar. Check List 6: 62–63.

van Noort S & Azevedo CO. 2019. Discovery of the male of the rare Afrotropical species Tuberepyris codex Azevedo & Mugrabi (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). African Entomology 27(1): 43–48. https://doi.org/10.4001/003.027.0043

Credits

Photographs of female © Celso Azevedo & Daniele Mugrabi (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil). Photographs of male 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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