Quartinia vagepunctata von Schulthess

Gess, Friedrich W., 2012, The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part VI. New and little known species both with complete and incomplete venation, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 24, pp. 95-115 : 107

Quartinia vagepunctata von Schulthess

Quartinia vegepunctata von Schulthess 1929: 504 (key), ♀. Holotype ♀: South Africa: Little Karroo (sic), 38 m[iles] E of Ceres (BMNH). - von Schulthess 1935: 386 (key); Richards 1962: 132 (key), 169 (redescription of female); Gess and Gess 1992 (nesting); Gess, S. K. 1996 (nesting , flower visiting); Carpenter 2001: 29 (listed); Gess and Gess 2003: 64 (flower visiting); Gess 2011a: 32, figs 84-90 (description of male, key, flower visiting).

Additional material examined.

SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: NW of Pampoenpoort, near Natuurskoon Farm (30.57S, 22.29E), 23.ix.2009 (F. W. & S. K. Gess), 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂ (3♀♀, 1 ♂ visiting yellow flowers of blue rayed capitula of Felicia sp., Asteraceae ; 1 ♀ visiting flowers of Felicia filifolia (Vent.) Burtt Davy, Asteraceae ); Carnarvon (30.59S, 22.07E), 24.ix.2009 (F. W. & S. K. Gess), 1 ♂ (visiting yellow flowers of blue/violet rayed capitula of Felicia dubia Cass., Asteraceae ); Sutherland district, Bo-Visrivier road (32.25S, 20.39E), 7.x.2009 (F. W. & S. K. Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting yellow flowers of Leysera tenella DC, Asteraceae ) - [all AMG].

Augmented floral associations.

To the previously recorded very marked association with Asteraceae ( Gess 2011a: 36) may be added Felicia spp.