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Anthobosca insularis Smith

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Thynnoidea; Family: Thynnidae; Subfamily: Anthoboscinae; Genus: Anthobosca)

Classification

Anthobosca insularis F. Smith, 1879

Distribution

Madagascar.

Biology

Unknown.

Reference

Boni Bartalucci, M.B. 2005. Anthoboscinae and Myzininae (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) from Madagascar. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 2005: 1077–1097.

Day, M.C., Else, G.R. & Morgan, D. 1981. The most primitive scoliidae (Hymenoptera). Journal of Natural History 15: 671–684.

Kimsey, L.S. 1991. Relationships among the tiphiid wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 16: 427-438.

Kimsey, L.S. 2009. Review of the Malagasy Anthobosca, the bizarre and the sublime(Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Anthoboscinae). Zootaxa 2175: 1–18.

Kimsey, LS. 2011. Tiphiidae wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 45–68. doi: 10.3897/JHR.22.1142

Krombein, K.V. 1949. Studies in the Tiphiidae. VII. The Madagascan species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 51: 45–73.

Magretti, P. 1884. Risultati di raccolte imenotterologische nell’Africa Orientale. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturelle di Genova (2ª) 1: 523–567.

Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the British Museum, London. 240 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Lynn Kimsey (Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis).


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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