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Arge bisignata Konow

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

Arge bisignata Konow, 1907. Holotype in Deutsches Entomologisches Institut im ZALF, Müncheberg (DEI). Type locality: Natal (South Africa).

Arge tibiale Pasteels, 1963. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Middlefontein near Nylstroom (South Africa). Synonymy by Koch & Eardley 2011.

Arge tibialis: Taeger et al., 2010, correction of spelling.

Arge_bisignata

Figure (18) sawsheath, lateral aspect; (19) sawsheath (dorsal aspect); (20) lancet (lateral aspect); (21) serrulae 10–11; (22) penis valve (left, lateral aspect); (23) hind tibia with basitarsomere.

Distribution

Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Koch F. & Eardley C. 2011. Revision of the Afrotropical Arge mirabilipes group, with description of two new species and annotations to other Arge species of this region (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae). African Invertebrates 52: 457-470 http://dx.doi.org/10.5733/afin.052.0213

Koch F, Goergen G & van Noort S. In press. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa

Konow, F.W. 1907. Neue Argides. (Hym.). Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, Teschendorf bei Stargard i. Mecklenburg 7 (4): 306–309.

Pasteels, J. 1963. Prodrome d’une faune des Tenthredinoidea de l’Afrique noire. IV. 2e supplement aux Argidae. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Royale d’Entomologie de Belgique, Bruxelles 99(37): 540-560.

Taeger, A., Blank, S.M. & Liston, A.D. 2010. World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa 2580: 1-1064.

Credits

Photographs & illustrations © Frank Koch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) or 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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