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Arge taeniata (Klug)

Pelargonum sawfly

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

Hylotoma taeniata Klug, 1834. Holotype in (MFN). Type locality: Pr. b. sp. [Promontorium Bonae Spei] [Cape of Good Hope], Capland (Western Cape Province, South Africa).

Athalia pelargonii Skaife, 1954. Holotype in (BMNH). Type locality: Houtbay, Cape Province (Western Cape Province, South Africa). Synonymy by Koch et al., in press.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Host plant: Geranium sp. (Geraniaceae) (Prinsloo, 1985).

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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 © Andrew Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg).


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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