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Ceropales africana Móczar

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Pompiloidea; Family: Pompilidae; Subfamily: Ceropalinae; Genus: Ceropales)

Ceropales africana Móczar, 1989. Paratype in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC). Type locality: Mamathes (Lesotho).
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Distribution

 Angola, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Yemen, Zambia.

The Botswana record cited by Móczár (1989) is a country misallocation for the locality "Mamathes, Basutoland", which is Lesotho.

Biology

 Kleptoparasites of other Pompilidae and to a lesser extent Sphecidae, stealing their spider prey.

Reference

 Móczar, L. 1989. Revision of the helvetica group of the genus Ceropales. Beitr. Ent. 39:9-61.

Credits

Photographs © 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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