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Incertosulcus capensis (Kieffer)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Bethylidae; Subfamily: Mesitiinae;  Genus: Incertosulcus)

Mesitius capensis Kieffer, 1911. Holotype in Ditsong Museum, Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Algoa Bay, South Africa.

Photographs of Holotype © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Photographs of non-type © Diego N. Barbosa & Celso O. Azevedo (Brazil).

Distribution

Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

 Developed from Clutrinae cocoon.

Reference

Argaman, Q. 2003. Generic synopsis of Mesitinae [sic] Kieffer, 1914 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Entomofauna 24: 61–96.

Azevedo CO, Alencar IDCCA, Ramos MS, Barbosa DN, Colombo WD, Vargas JMR, Lim J. 2018. Global guide of the flat wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Zootaxa 4489:1–294. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4489.1.1

Barbosa DN  & Azevedo CO. 2020. Synopsis of Incertosulcus Móczár, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Journal of Natural History 54: 1363-1393.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1794073

Credits

Photographs of Holotype and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Photographs of non-type © Diego N. Barbosa & Celso O. Azevedo (Brazil).

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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