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Pampsilota africanus (Mocsáry)

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

Cipdele africana Mocsáry, 1909. Lectotype in (HNHM). Type locality: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Pampsilota africanus var. interruptus Forsius, 1928. Holotype in (MRAC). Type locality: Tabora-Kigoma, Tanzania.

Classification

Female above, male below:

Distribution

Kenya, Tanzania.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Liston, A.D., Goergen, G. & Koch, F. 2017. Revisions of the Afrotropical genera of Argidae and species of Pampsilota Konow, 1899 (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64(1): 1-25. doi: 10.3897/dez.64.10800

Credits

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