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Zetheumenidion Fabricius

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

Zetheumenidion Fabricius, 1804. Type species: Vespa coeruleopennis Fabricius, 1798.

 

Zetheumenidion celonitiforme (Giordani Soika, 1944) (Tanzania)

 

Zetheumenidion femoratum femoratum (von Schulthess Rechberg, 1910) (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)

 

Zetheumenidion femoratum flavissimum Giordani Soika, 1987 (South Africa)

 

Zetheumenidion hessei (Giordani Soika, 1944) (South Africa)

 

Zetheumenidion invertitus (Giordani Soika, 1944) ()

 

Zetheumenidion pulchripenne (Cameron, 1910) (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Distribution

Botswana, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Biology

 

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.

Credits

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


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2023. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the Afrotropical region. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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