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Arge dirce (W.F. Kirby)

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

Hylotoma dirce W.F. Kirby, 1882. Holotype in (BMNH). Type locality: Lake Ngami (Botswana).


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

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Sawfly larvae of Arge dirce feeding on their host-plant. Photograph © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths.

Distribution

Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host plant: Diospyros lycioides Desfontaines (bluebush, red starapple) (Ebenaceae) (Koch et al. 2015).

References

Kirby, W.F. 1882. List of Hymenoptera with description and figures of the typical specimens in the British Museum. Tenthredinidae and Siricidae. Trustees, London 1: 1-450.

Koch, F. 2005. The sawflies of the BIOTA-Southern Africa Project with description of a new species of Arge (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin - Zoologische Reihe 81: 193-199.

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 © J. Deckert or © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut), or © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths.


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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