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Ammophila insignis F. Smith
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family: Sphecidae;
Subfamily: Ammophilinae; Genus:
Ammophila)
Ammophila insignis
F.Smith, 1856. Syntypes in Natural History Museum, London
(BMNH). Type locality: no specific locality, Gambia.
Ammophila egregia Mocsáry, 1881.
Syntypes in Természettudományi
Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary (TMB). Type locality:
Beirut, Lebanon. Synonymy by Dollfuss, 2013.
Ammophila
transvaalensis Cameron, 1910. Holotype or Syntypes in Ditsong Museum,
Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: no specific locality, South Africa.
Synonymized with Sphex egregia race transvaalensis by Arnold,
1928.
Sphex
egregia race litoralis Arnold,
1920. Syntypes in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC).
Syntype localities: Algoa Bay and Willowmore, South Africa.
Ammophila insignis race litoralis var. nigricollis Arnold,
1960. Syntype: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type
locality: Drakensberg Mts.: Little Berg Summits, South Africa.
Synonymized with Ammophila insignis litoralis by Bohart & Menke,
1976.
Sphex egregia race promontorii Arnold, 1920 (authorship attributed
to Kohl). Syntypes: in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC).
Type locality: Zimbabwe and South Africa: no specific localities.
Synonymized with Sphex egregia transvaalensis by Arnold, 1928.
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Sphex egregia race litoralis Arnold,
1920. Syntype female SAM-HYM-A009590. |
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Sphex egregia race litoralis Arnold,
1920. Syntype male SAM-HYM-A009591. |
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Ammophila insignis
race litoralis var. nigricollis Arnold, 1960.
Syntype male SAM-HYM-A009592. |
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Distribution
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Ethiopia,
Gambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
Also
Palaearctic and Oriental regions. |
Biology
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Nest provisioned with caterpillars. |
References
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Arnold, G. 1920. A
revision of the South African species of the genus Sphex Linn. (olim
Ammophila Kirby). Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 18
(2):25-55, 2 pls. Arnold, G. 1928b.
The Sphegidae of South Africa. Part X. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 12:
233-279, pls. IX-XI.
Arnold, G. 1960.
Aculeate Hymenoptera from the Drakensberg Mountains, Natal. Annals of the
Natal Museum 15: 79-87.
Bohart, R.M. &
Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a
Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. Cameron, P. 1910. On the
Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Normal College, Pretoria, in
the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2:115-154.
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. |
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 by Sandy Sauls © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
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