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Masarinae

Classification of Afrotropical pollen wasps

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

 

References

GESS, F.W, 1968. Further contribution to the knowledge of the South African species of the genus Ceramius Latreille (Hymenoptera: Masaridae). Novas Taxa Ento., 57:3-14.

GESS, F.W, 1989. A species of the genus Celonites Latreille (Hymenoptera: Masaridae) from South Africa. Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Vol 18: 83-94.

GESS, S.K. 1996. The Pollen Wasps: ecology and natural history of the Masarinae. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 340 pp.

Carpenter, J.M. 2001. Checklist of species of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3325: 1-37.

GESS, F.W. 2004. A revision of the Afrotropical species of the wasp genus Jugurtia de Saussure, 1854 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Masarinae). Howard Evans Memorial Volume. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77: 669-720.

GESS, F.W. 2005. Three new species of Masarina Richards, 1962 from southern Africa with a key to all species of the genus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Masarinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14(1): 7-14.

GESS, F.W. 2007. Four new species of the wasp genus Celonites Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) from south-western Africa, designation of neotype for C. michaelseni von Schulthess, 1923, species representation in Namibia, and a key to species occurring in Namibia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16(1): 11 – 29.

GESS, F.W. 2007. The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part I. Descriptions of new species with complete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16(2): 211 – 233.

GESS, F.W. 2008. The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part II. A new species with complete venation and with deeply excised antennal club in the male. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 17(1):  83 – 85.

Full list of publications on Masarinae by Fred & Sarah Gess

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