Knemodynerus aequabilis Gusenleitner 1995 (Madagascar)

Knemodynerus albolimbatus (von Schulthess 1914) (Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Thomé, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Knemodynerus conspicuus (Gusenleitner 1992) (South Africa)

Knemodynerus euryspilus (Cameron 1910) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, South Africa)

Knemodynerus expressus (Giordani Soika 1934) (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zanzibar)

Knemodynerus farquharensis (Cameron 1907) (Aldabra Islands; Seychelles).

Knemodynerus inversus Gusenleitner 2004 (Kenya)

Knemodynerus meyeri (Cameron 1910) (Democratic Republic of Congo (?), Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania)

Knemodynerus pseudolateralis (Meade-Waldo 1915) (Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo; also in the Palearctic Region)

Knemodynerus rhynchoides rhynchoides (de Saussure 1853) (Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (?), Democratic Republic of Congo (?), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan; also in the Palearctic Region)

Knemodynerus seychellensis (von Dalla Torre 1904) (Mauritius, Seychelles)

Knemodynerus stigma (de Saussure 1863) (Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan; also in the Palearctic Region)

Knemodynerus turneri (Giordani Soika 1934) (Namibia)

Distribution

Afrotropical region: Aldabra Islands, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Djibouti,  Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Thomé, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe. Also in the Palaearctic Region.

Biology

Reference

Bequaert J., 1918. A Revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, With A List of Ethiopian Diplopterous Wasps. Bulletin A. M. N. H, Vol. 39: 2-384.

Carpenter J. M., 1986. A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, Vol 93: 61-90.

Carpenter, J. M. & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus FABRICIUS 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums)