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Macromeria infradentata (Turner)

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

Classification

Myzine infradentata Turner, 1913. Holotype in Ditsong Museum, Pretoria (TMSA). Type locality: Bothaville, South Africa.

Photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Specimen from Limpopo Province, near Vaalwater. Thanks to Denis Brothers for species determination. Photographs © Peter Schuele (Germany).

Distribution

Botswana, Namibia, South Africa.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Boni Bartalucci, M.B. 2007. The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 39: 1257- 1305.

Cameron, P. 1910. On the aculeate hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Normal College, Pretoria in the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2 (3): 116-119.
Gerstaecker C. 1857. Diagnosen der von peters in Mossambique gesammelten Käfer v. Hymenoptera. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: 509-512.
Turner R.E. 1913. On new species of fossorial Hymenoptera from Africa, mostly Elidinae. Trans. ent. Soc. London 720-754.

Westwood J.O. 1835. New Hymenopterous insects. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 53-54.

Credits

Photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa or © Peter Schuele (Germany).

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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