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Ndumu Game Reserve (Kwazulu-Natal). Photographs © Athol Marchant (Kwazulu-Natal). |
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Male Ndumu Game Reserve (Kwazulu-Natal).
Photographs © Stephen Marshall (University of Guelph). |
Distribution
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Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania. |
Biology |
Reared from mud
nests of Sceliphron spirifex (Linnaeus) (Sceliphrinae, Sphecidae);
Tricarinodynerus guerinii (Saussure); and Synagris analis
Saussure (Eumeninae, Vespidae) (Baylis & Brothers, 2001; Weaving, 1995). |
References |
Bayliss, P.S. &
Brothers, D.J. 2001. Behaviour and Host Relationships of Dolichomutilla
sycorax (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Sphecidae). Journal of
Hymenoptera Research 10: 1-9.
Smith, F. 1879.
Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the British Museum, London.
240 pp.
Weaving, A.J.S. 1995.
A comparison of nesting success and nesting habits in some Afrotropical aculeate
wasps, with particular reference to nest parasites (Hymenoptera: Sphecidaae,
Eumenidae). Annals
Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History) 19(4):181-224. |
Credits
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Photographs © Athol Marchant (Kwazulu-Natal),
or © Stephen Marshall (University of Guelph).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko
Museums of South Africa).
Thanks to Denis Brothers (University of
Kwazulu-Natal) for the determinations.
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