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Sapygina Costa

Afrotropical species

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

Sapygina Costa, 1887.

Classification

Subgenus Sapygella Benoit, 1950
Sapygina braunsi (Arnold, 1929)
 

Sapygina capicola (Brauns, 19**) (South Africa)

Sapygina enderleini (Brauns, 19**) (South Africa)

Sapygina lobengulae (Arnold, 1929)

Sapygina lugens (Arnold, 1933)

Sapygina lugens manica (Arnold, 1960)

Sapygina simillima (Arnold, 1929)
Sapygina superciliosa (Arnold, 1929)
Sapygina swierstrae (Arnold, 1929)
Sapygina undulata Gerstaecker, 1861
Sapygina watsa Benoit, 1950

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Cleptoparasites of bee larva (Megachilidae, Anthophoridae).

References

Arnold, G. 1929. African species of Sapygidae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 13: 175-181.

Arnold, G. 1933. New African Hymenoptera. Occasional Papers of the Rhodesian Museum 2: 51-56.

Arnold, G. 1960. New species of African Hymenoptera No. 15. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia No. 24B:452-488.

Benoit, P.L.G. 1950. Un Sapygide (Hym.) nouveau du Congo belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 43: 267–268.

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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