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Raphiglossa Saunders

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Eumeninae)

Raphiglossa Saunders, 1850. Type species: Raphiglossa eumenoides Saunders, 1850.

  Raphiglossa braunsiana (von Schulthess, 1918)
  Raphiglossa flavo-ornata (Cameron, 1905)
Raphiglossa lemuriae Giordani Soika, 1941 (Madagascar)
  Raphiglossa natalensis Smith, 1857
  Raphiglossa septentrionalis Giordani Soika, 1989 (Togo)
 

Raphiglossa tibestica Giordani Soika, 1974 (Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Unknown.

Reference

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

Selis, M. 2023. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genus Leptomenes Giordani Soika, with description of a new species from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa 5228: 584-594. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.5.3

Credits

Photographs © Marco Selis (Viterbo, Italy).


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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