(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Sphecidae; Subfamily: Ammophilinae; Genus: Ammophila)
Ammophila curvistriata Cameron, 1908. Holotype in (NRS). Type locality: Mt Kilimanjaro, Kibonoto, Tanzania. Status resurrected by Dollfuss, 2015.
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Unknown.
Ammophila curvistriata was tentatively synonymized with Ammophila ferrugineipes Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845 by Arnold 1928: 279, but he did not examine the types (Dollfuss, 2015).
Dollfuss, H. 2015. Revision of the wasp genus Ammophila Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae) of the Sub-Saharan Region of Africa. Linzer biologische Beiträge 47: 307–412.
CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).
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