Bembix gracilens J. Parker, 1929

Gess, Friedrich W. & Gess, Sarah K., 2014, Geographical distributions of Bembix (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Bembicinae) in southern Africa, with notes on biology, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 36, pp. 53-130 : 81

Bembix gracilens J. Parker

Bembix gracilens J. Parker, 1929: 143, pl. 9, fig. 109, ♀ (Holotype, ♀, South West Africa [Namibia], no locality, in ZMHB); Arnold 1931: 217 (original description copied); Lohrmann 1948: 448 (member of fuscipennis species group); R. Bohart and Menke 1976: 546 (in checklist of world Sphecidae ); Pulawski 2013: 33 (in catalogue of Sphecidae sensu lato).

Material examined.

NAMIBIA: Windhoek [22.35S, 17.04E], 29.xii.1966 (H. Empey) ♀ [AMGS].

Geographical distribution.

Recorded from Namibia ( Fig. 9e ).

Floral associations.

Unknown.

Nesting.

Unknown.

Prey.

Unknown.

Figures

Figure 9. Distributions of collection records of Bembix spp.: a Bembix diversipennis b Bembix flavicincta c Bembix fraudulenta d Bembix fuscipennis e Bembix gracilens f Bembix harenarum.