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  Afrepipona Giordani Soika

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Eumeninae)

Afrepipona Giordani Soika, 1965. Type species: Odynerus macrocephalus Gribodo, 1894.

 

Afrepipona angusta (de Saussure, 1863)

  Afrepipona anomala Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona cellularis Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona clonata Selis & Carpenter, 2024
Afrepipona cuprea Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona lamellata Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona lamptoensis Giordani Soika, 1965
  Afrepipona lamptula Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona lobulata Selis & Carpenter, 2024
 

Afrepipona macrocephala (Gribodo, 1894)

  Afrepipona meridionalis Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona occidentalis Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona orientalis Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona punctatissima Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona scabra Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona segregata Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona tertia Gusenleitner, 2011
  Afrepipona ulterior Selis & Carpenter, 2024
  Afrepipona vulcanica Selis & Carpenter, 2024

Distribution

Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Bequaert J. 1918. A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American museum Congo expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps. Bulletin of the American Musuem of Natural History 39: 2-384.

Carpenter J. M. 1986. A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 93: 61-90.

Carpenter, J. M. & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus Fabricius 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part III: Classification, Additions, Corrections and Index. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 919-1004.

Selis, M., & Carpenter, J. M. 2024. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Afrepipona Giordani Soika, 1965 and description of Afrepsilon gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). European Journal of Taxonomy 944:1–80. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.944.2607

Credits

Photographs © Marco Selis.

Afrepipona vulcanica Selis & Carpenter, 2024

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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