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Arge bensoni Pasteels

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

Arge bensoni Pasteels, 1953. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Lupane (Zimbabwe).

Distribution

Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe.

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. In press. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa

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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