(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Pompiloidea; Family: Pompilidae; Subfamily: Ceropalinae; Genus: Ceropales)
Ceropales lawrencei Arnold, 1937. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC). Type locality: Inhambane, Mozambique.
Mozambique.
Kleptoparasites of other Pompilidae and to a lesser extent Sphecidae, stealing their spider prey.
Arnold, G. 1937. The Psammocharidae of the Ethiopian region. Part VII. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19: 1-98.
Arnold, G. 1955. New species of African Hymenoptera No. 11. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. 20: 733-762.
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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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