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Macromeria klugii Westwood

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

Classification

Macromeria klugii (Westwood, 1835). Holotype in ?. Type locality: "apud Sierra Leone"


Male


Female


Distribution

Namibia, South Africa. (Sierra Leone?).

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. Line illustrations © Mario Boni Bartalucci (Sezione di Entomologia Museo Zoologico "La Specola"). 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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