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Synagris fulva Moscáry

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

Synagris fulva Moscáry, 1903. Holotype Type Locality: Ukami, Tanzania.

Male from Kilombero, Tanzania https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65699872.

Photograph © Michele Menegon (https://www.inaturalist.org/people/michelemenegon)

Distribution

Cameroon, Tanzania.

Biology

See Longair (2009).

References

Bequaert, J.C. 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 of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1-384.

Longair, R. 2009. Tusked Males, Male Dimorphism and Nesting Behavior in a Subsocial Afrotropical Wasp, Synagris cornuta, and Weapons and Dimorphism in the Genus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77: 528-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2317/E-38.1

Credits

Photographs © Michele Menegon (https://www.inaturalist.org/people/michelemenegon).

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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