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Distega Konow
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Tenthredinoidea; Family:
Tenthredinidae; Subfamily: Blennocampinae)
Distega Konow, 1904.
Type species: Distega sjoestedti Konow, 1904, by monotypy.
Paradistega Forsius, 1934. Type species:
Distega bevisi Forsius, 1930, by original designation.
Codistega Pasteels, 1949. Type species: Paradistega
congoensis Forsius, 1934, by original designation.
Eudistega Pasteels, 1949. Type species: Eudistega
formosus Pasteels, 1949, by original designation.
Pachydistega Pasteels, 1949. Type species: Distega
mocsaryi Enslin, 1913, by original designation.
Distegella Pasteels, 1951. Type species: Distegella
velutina Pasteels, by original designation.
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Distega abdominalis Forsius
1931
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Distega affinis Forsius, 1934
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Distega abyssinica
Pasteels, 1955
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Distega basilewyski
Pasteels, 1955
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Distega bevisi Forsius, 1930
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Distega braunsi
Enslin, 1911
Distega brunniventris
Enslin, 1913
Distega carbonaria Forsius, 1928
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Distega clypealis
Pasteels, 1955
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Distega coeruleomicans
Pasteels, 1955
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Distega congonensis
(Forsius, 1934)
Distega formosa
(Pasteels, 1949)
Distega fumipennis Pasteels, 1949
Distega
forsiusi Blank, Liston & Taeger, 2009
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Distega humeralis
Pasteels, 1955
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Distega inaequalis
Pasteels, 1953
Distega luteipes
Pasteels, 1949
Distega
maculata
(Forsius, 1934)
Distega
micans
(Forsius, 1934)
Distega mocsaryi
Enslin, 1913
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Distega montium Konow,
1907
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Distega nigeriae Forsius,
1927
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Distega
occipitalis Pasteels,
1949
Distega nigriceps
(Enderlein, 1920)
Distega pallidiventris
Forsius, 1927
Distega paradoxalis
Pasteels, 1954
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Distega pectoralis
Forsius, 1927
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Distega
rectiserra (Pasteels, 1949)
Distega schoutedeni
Pasteels, 1954
Distega sjoestedti Konow, 1904
Distega stenocephala
Pasteels, 1952
Distega
thoracalis (Pasteels, 1949)
Distega velutina
(Pasteels, 1951) |
Distribution
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Benin, Burundi, Central Africa,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya,
Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda,
Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
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Distega nigeriae
lifecycle. Photographs © Georg Goergen (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Benin). |
Biology |
The larvae of the western African Distega nigeriae
Forsius, 1927 were recorded feeding on Commelina benghalensis,
C. communis (Commelinaceae) and Digitaria horizontalis (Poaceae)
in Benin (G. Goergen, unpublished). |
References |
Forsius, R. 1927. On some new or little known African
Tenthredinoidea. I. Notulae Entomologicae 7: 43–50.
Forsius, R. 1928. Notes on new or little known
African Tenthredinoidea. IV. Notulae Entomologicae, Helsingfors
8: 40-42.
Forsius, R. 1928. Sur quelques Mouches à scie du Congo Belge et
pays
limitrophes (Hym., Tenthr.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique
Africaines, Bruxelles 16: 233-241.
Forsius, R. 1928. On some Tenthredinoidea collected by Dr. J.
Bequaert in Central Africa. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique
Africaines, Bruxelles 16: 326-334.
Forsius, R. 1930. On Some South African Tenthredinoidea from The
Durban Museum, Natal. Annals of the Durban Museum 3 (3): 67–76.
Forsius, R. 1930. Bemerkungen über afrikanische Tenthredinoiden.
Notulae Entomologicae, Helsingfors 10(3-4): 65-68.
Forsius R. 1931. Notes on a Collection of Ethiopian Oryssoidea
and Tenthredinoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Annals and Magazine of
Natural History, 10th series, 8 (43):136.
Koch, F. & Liston, A.D. 2012. Revision of
Durbadnus Pasteels, 1954, with notes on other Afrotropical
Blennocampinae and Allantinae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Tenthredinidae).
African Invertebrates 53 (2): 645-660.
Konow, F.W. 1904. Ueber einige exotische
Tenthrediniden. (Hym.). Zeitschrift für systematische
Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, Teschendorf bei Stargard i.
Mecklenburg 4 (4): 231–240.
Konow, F.W. 1907. Neue Argides. (Hym.). Zeitschrift
für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, Teschendorf bei
Stargard i. Mecklenburg 7 (4): 306–309.
Pasteels, J. 1949. Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera,
Tenthredinoidea). Exploration du Parc National Albert, Mission G. F.
de Witte (1933-1935), Bruxelles 60: 1-104.
Pasteels, J. 1955. Prodromes d’une faune des Tenthredinoidea de
l’Afrique noire. II. Le genre Distega Konow (Tenthredinidae,
Blennocampinae). Mémoires de la Société Royale d’Entomologie Belgique,
Bruxelles 27: 384-412. |
Credits
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Photographs
© Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut),
or Georg Goergen (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Benin),
or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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