Distribution

South Africa (Western Cape).

Biology

Visiting red flowers of Hermannia (Mahernia) diffusa L. f., Malvaceae: Sterculioideae). Recorded in association with, and possible host of Allocoelia quinquedens Edney (Chrysididae) (Gess, 2012).

References

Gess FW 1997. Contribution to the knowledge of Ceramius Latreille, Celonites Latreille, Jugurtia Saussure and Masarina Richards (Hymenoptera: Masaridae) in South Africa. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 6: 36-74.

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 FW & Gess SK 1988. A contribution to the knowledge of the taxonomy and the ethology of the genus Masarina Richards (Hymenoptera: Masaridae). Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) 16: 351-362.

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

Credits

Photographs © Friedrich Gess (Albany Museum), first published in Journal of Hymenoptera Research.