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  Celonites capensis Brauns

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

Celonites capensis Brauns, 1905. Holotype: In Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa. Type Locality: Willowmore, Western Cape, South Africa.

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

 

Reference

Gess, F.W. 2007. Four New Species of the Wasp Genus Celonites Latreille, 180 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) from South-west Africa, Designation of Neotype for C. michaelseni von Schulthess, 1923, Species Representation in Namibia, and Key to Species Occurring in Namibia. J. HYM. RES., Vol 16: 11-29.

GESS, S.K. and GESS, F.W. 1989. Flower visiting by masarid wasps in southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Masaridae). Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. (nat. Hist.) 18(5): 95‑134.

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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