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  Masarina strucki Gess

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

Masarina strucki Gess 1988. Holotype: In Albany Museum, Grahams Town, South Africa. Type Locality: Goegap Nature Reserve, Springbok, Namaqualand, South Africa.

Distribution

South Africa: Northern Cape Province.

Biology

Flower visiting records in Gess S.K.,1996; Gess & Gess, 2003; 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, S.K. 1996. The Pollen Wasps: ecology and natural history of the Masarinae. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 340 pp.

Gess SK & Gess FW 2003. A catalogue of flower visiting records for aculeate wasps and bees in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa. Grahamstown: Albany Museum. 529pp.

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

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