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Paranysson Guérin-Méneville
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(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family:
Crabronidae; Subfamily: Crabroninae; Tribe:
Miscophini)
Paranysson Guérin-Méneville, 1844:441
(as subgenus of Nysson). Type species: Nysson
abdominalis Guérin-Méneville, 1844, by monotypy.
Helioryctes F. Smith, 1856:358. Type species:
Helioryctes melanopyrus F. Smith, 1856, by monotypy.
Pseudohelioryctes Ashmead, 1899:248. Type species:
Pseudohelioryctes foxii Ashmead, 1899, by original
designation and monotypy
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Paranysson brevispinosus Arnold, 1929 |
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Paranysson bumbanus Leclercq, 1968
Paranysson foxii (Ashmead, 1899)
Paranysson helioryctoides (Turner, 1912)
Paranysson inermis Leclercq, 1968
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Paranysson oscari Turner, 1914 |
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Paranysson quadridentatus (Cameron, 1910)
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Distribution
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Central African Republic, Congo,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia,
Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Biology
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Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest constructed
in sandy soil with paralyzed nymphal Pentatomidae (Hemiptera) (Bequaert,
1933). |
References
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Bequaert, J. 1933. The nesting habits of
Paranysson, an African genus of fossorial wasps (Hymenoptera,
Sphegoidea). Entomological News 44: 36-39.
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. |
Links
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CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE
sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences). |
Credits
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Photographs and map illustration ©
Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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