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Macromeria semirufa (Gerstaecker)

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

Classification

Myzine (Pseudomeria) semirufa Gerstaecker, 1857. Holotype in MNHU. Type locality: South Africa.

Myzine rufosplendida Turner, 1913. Synonymy by Boni Bartalucci, 2007.
Myzine aterrima Turner, 1917. Synonymy by Boni Bartalucci, 2007.

Distribution

Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

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

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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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