| Female SAM-HYM-A004461 (SAMC) |
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| Male SAM-HYM-A004453 (SAMC) |
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Distribution
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Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia,
Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen.
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Biology |
Mud nest usually built on surfaces of rocks, walls or
branches and trunks of trees, either as a single pot or as a group of
cells covered by an outer envelope; prey are usually geometrid moth
caterpillars (Gess & Gess, 2014). |
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 Museum
of Natural History 39: 2-384.
Bequaert, J. 1926. The genus Eumenes Latreille, in
South Africa, with a revision of the Ethiopian species (Hymenoptera.) Annals
of the South African Museum 23: 483–577.
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. 2010a. 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. 2010b. 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. |
Credits
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Photographs © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
Map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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