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Herpetosphex Arnold

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

Herpetosphex Arnold, 1940. Type species: Herpetosphex staphylinoides Arnold, 1940.

Protosclerogibba Olmi, Marletta, Guglielmino & Speranza, 2016. Type species: Protosclerogibba australis Olmi, Marletta, Guglielmino & Speranza, 2016. Synonymy by Martynova et al 2019.

Herpetosphex staphylinoides Arnold, 1940

Distribution

Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Arnold, G. 1940. A new genus and two new species of apterous Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) from Southern Rhodesia. Journal of the Entomological Society of southern Africa 3: 30-34.

Martynova KV, Olmi M, Müller P, Perkovsky EE. 2019. Description of the first sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) from Burmese (Myanmar) amber and its phylogenetic significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 0: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551250

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. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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