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Ceropales scobiniferus Arnold

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

Ceropales scobiniferus Arnold, 1937. Lectotype male in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Paralectotype in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC). Type locality: Mfongozi, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa.

The Mozambique record cited by Móczár (1986) is a country misallocation for the locality "Mt Mulanje", which is in Malawi.

Biology

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

References

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.

Móczar, L. 1986. Revision of the genus Hemiceropales Priesner, 1969 (Hymenoptera: Ceropalidae). Acta  Zoologica Hungarica 32:317-342.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © 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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