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Arge annulipes (Klug)

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

Hylotoma annulipes Klug, 1834. Holotype in (MFN). Type locality: Uitenhage, Western Cape Province (South Africa).

Hylotoma pretoriensis Buysson, 1898. Holotype in (MNHN). Type locality: Pretoria, South Africa.

Distribution

South Africa.

Habitat

Olifantsbos, Cape Point. Photograph © Frank Koch.

Biology

Unknown. One female was collected on Ricinus communis L. (Euphorbiaceae), Morgan Bay (Eastern Cape Province); and one male on flowering Foeniculum vulgare Miller (Apiaceae), Belmont Valley, Grahamstown (Eastern Cape Province) (Koch et al. in press).

References

Klug, F. 1834. Uebersicht der Tenthredinetae der Sammlung. Jahrbücher der Insectenkunde mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Sammlung des Königl. Museum in Berlin herausgegeben 1: 223-253.

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.

Credits

Photographs © Andrew Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg) or © Frank Koch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

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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