Distribution
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Democratic
Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe (Leclercq,
2008). |
Biology
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Females make their nests in plant stems, or in friable
sandy or clayey soil, and most commonly provision
the nest with flies (Diptera), but Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera,
micro-Lepidoptera, Psocoptera, and Trichoptera are also preyed upon (Gess
& Gess, 2014). |
References
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Bohart, R.M. &
Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a
Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and
evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and
Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.
Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp.
279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World:
an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture
Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014.
Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI
Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute,
Pretoria. 320 pp.
Leclercq J. 2008.
Hyménoptères Crabroniens du genre Crossocerus Lepeletier & Brullé
1835 de la Région afrotropicale (Hymenoptera : Crabronidae Crabroninae).
Entomologie faunistique - Faunistic Entomology 61: 3-22.
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