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Arge pelargonii Skaife

Pelargonum sawfly

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

Athalia pelargonii Skaife, 1954. Holotype in (BMNH). Type locality: Houtbay, Cape Province (Western Cape Province, South Africa). Junior synonym of Arge taeniata (Klug, 1834). Synonymy by Koch et al., in press.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

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. 2010. Eight new species of Arge from South Africa and Namibia (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae). Lambillionea 110 (1): 19-34.

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.

Skaife, S.H. 1954. African Insect Life. Longmans Green and Co., London, Cape Town, New York: 387pp.

Credits

Photographs © 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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