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  Quartinia albopicta (Richards)

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

Quartinoides? albopicta Richards, 1982. Holotype: In Zoologisk Museum, Kobenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark. Type Locality: Gobabeb, Namibia.

Distribution

Namibia.

Biology

 

References

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

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.

Gess FW 2011. The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 21: 1–39. doi: 10.3897/JHR.21.870

Gess FW 2011. The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29–43. doi: 10.3897/JHR.22.871

Gess FW 2012. The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part VI. New and little known species both with complete and incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 24: 95–115. doi: 10.3897/JHR.24.2155

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

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