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Arge deckerti Koch

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Argidae; Subfamily: Arginae; Genus: Arge)

Arge deckerti Koch, 2005. Holotype in National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek (NMNW). Type locality: 43 km N Okahandja, Otjiamongombe (Erichsfelde), 21°37’S 016°56'E, Okahandja, Namibia.
 
Photographs © J. Deckert.
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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Distribution

Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

In southern Africa adults were recorded feeding on pollen of Nidorella resedifolia DC. and N.
auriculata DC. (Asteraceae).

References

 Koch, F. 2005. The sawflies of the BIOTA-Southern Africa Project with description of a new species of Arge (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin - Zoologische Reihe 81: 193-199.

Koch F, Goergen G & van Noort S. 2015. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa 15: 1-262.

Koch, F., Pauly, A., Hora, Z., & Boevé, J. 2015. Sawflies of Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Tenthredinidae). Zootaxa 4021: 119–155. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.5

Credits

Photographs © J. Deckert or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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