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a pollen wasp Masarina peliostomi visiting a Peliostomum flower, photo Robert Gess

Masarina Richards

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

Masarina Richards 1962. Type species: Masarina familiaris Richards, 1962, by original designation.

Classification

  Masarina ceres Gess, 1997
  Masarina familiaris Richards, 1962
  Masarina hyalinipennis Richards, 1962
  Masarina mixta Richards, 1962
  Masarina mixtoides Gess, 1997
  Masarina namaqua Gess, 1997
  Masarina parvula Gess, 1997
Masarina peliostomi Gess, 1997
  Masarina strucki Gess 1988
Masarina tylecodoni Gess, 1997

Distribution

 

Biology

Reference

F. W. Gess, 1997. Contribution to the knowledge of Ceramius Latreille, Celonites Latreille, Jugurtia Saussure and Masarina Richards (Hymenoptera: Masaridae) in South Africa. J. HYM. RES., Vol 6: 36-74.

Carpenter J. M., 2001. Checklist of Species of the Subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates, No 3325: 1-40.

Credits

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Photographs © Robert Gess and Sarah Gess (Albany Museum).

 

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