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Anthobosca Guérin de Méneville

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

Classification

Anthobosca Guérin de Méneville, 1838
 

Anthobosca aspericornis (Buysson, 1898) (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Anthobosca castanea Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca dimidiata Boni Bartalucci, 2005 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca erythrosoma (Cameron) (South Africa)

Anthobosca flagellaria Turner, 1920 (South Africa)

 

Anthobosca fisheri Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca hallucigenia Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca harinhalai Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca insularis F. Smith, 1879 (Madagascar)

 

Anthobosca madecassa Krombein, 1949 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca mahajangaensis Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca micromeria Boni Bartalucci, 2005 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca namorokaensis Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca nigrimacula Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Anthobosca toliaraensis Kimsey, 2009 (Madagascar)

Distribution

Worldwide, but absent from Oriental region.

Biology

Unknown.

Reference

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

Brothers, D.J. & Finnamore A.T. 1993. Superfamily Vespoidea (pp. 161-278). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

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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