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Leptomenes obliquepunctatus Selis

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

Leptomenes obliquepunctatus Selis, 2023. Holotype in private collection of Marco Selis, Viterbo, Italy (MSVI). Type locality: SOUTH AFRICA, Durban, Natal, 16-2-21, C. N. Barker, Bluff, 2600.

Holotype female

 

Paratype male

 

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Bequaert J., 1918. A Revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, With A List of Ethiopian Diplopterous Wasps. Bulletin A. M. N. H, Vol. 39: 2-384.

Carpenter J. M., 1986. A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, Vol 93: 61-90.

Carpenter, J. M. & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus FABRICIUS 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315.

Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2012. IRIDACEAE: Notes on Moraea subg. Visciramosa (Iridoideae), including new species Moraea saldanhensis from the Atlantic coast of South Africa, recognition of M. inconspicua subsp. namaquensis, and pollination biology of M. rivulicola. Bothalia 42(2):210-215

Selis, M. 2023. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genus Leptomenes Giordani Soika, with description of a new species from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa 5228: 584-594. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.5.3

von Schulthess, A. 1914. Beitrag zur Kenntnis aethiopischer Eumenidinen. Societas
Entomologia
29 (13): 57-58; (14): 62-64; (16): 72-74; (17): 77-79.

Credits

Photographs © Marco Selis (Viterbo, Italy).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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