Photograph © Alan Weaving.
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Photograph
© Duncan Butchart.
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Windhoek, Namibia. Photograph © Steve Marshall (University of Guelph).
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Distribution
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Angola, Ethiopia,
Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra
Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Biology |
Females
specialize on hunting
Baboon spiders (Theraphosidae) and
Rain spiders (Palystes) to provision their nest with as a
paralysed food resource for development of their larvae. |
References |
Picker,
M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa.
Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
Gess SK, Gess FW 2014.
Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI
Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute,
Pretoria. 320 pp. |
Credits
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Photographs
© Duncan Butchart or © Alan Weaving
(published
in Struik's
Field Guide to Insects of South Africa).
Map Illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums
of South Africa).
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