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Arge angulifera Pasteels

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Argidae; Subfamily: Arginae; Genus: Arge)

Arge angulifera Pasteels, 1953. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Viljoens Pass, Western Cape (South Africa).

Arge nigrofulva Pasteels, 1953. Holotype in (DEUS). Type locality: Pinelands, Western Cape (South Africa). Synonymy by Koch & Liston, 2012.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Koch, F. & Liston, A.D. 2012. Notes on Afrotropical sawflies of Arge Schrank, 1802, with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Argidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift · Stuttgart 122: 177-181.

Koch F, Goergen G & van Noort S. 2015. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa 15: 1-262.

Pasteels, J. 1953. Prodromes d’une faune des Tenthredinoïdea (Hymenoptera) de l’Afrique noire 1. Argidae. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, Bruxelles 26: 1-128.

Credits

 Photographs © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).

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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