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Masarinae

Classification and checklist of Afrotropical pollen wasps

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

References

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

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

Gess FW 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 FW 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 FW 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 FW 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 FW 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.

Gess FW 2009. The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part III. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18(2): 244 – 281.

Gess FW 2012. A new species of Masarina Richards 1962 from southern Africa, description of the female of M. ceres Gess 1997 and supplementary data on three other species of the genus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 25: 83–92. doi: 10.3897/JHR.25.2442

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

Gess SK & Gess FW 2010. Pollen wasps and flowers in southern Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series 18. South African National  Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 147 pp.

Full list of publications on Masarinae by Fred & Sarah Gess

Credits

Page developed by Nicole Larsen.

Photograph © Robert Gess


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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