Bembix flavicincta Turner, 1912

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 : 77

Bembix flavicincta Turner Fig. 8b

Bembex flavicincta Turner, 1912a: 414, ♂, ♀ (Syntypes, Zambia, Pakasa, Luangwa Valley; Malawi, W shore of Lake Malawi, in BMNH); Arnold 1929: 376 (in revision of southern African Sphecidae ); Arnold 1930: 21 (in checklist of Afrotropical Sphecidae ).

Bembex flavicincta Turner, Lohrmann 1948: 448 (member of the fuscipennis group); R. Bohart and Menke 1976: 546 (in checklist of world Sphecidae as Bembix flavocincta ); Gess 1986: 153 (as Bembix flavocincta , prey); Pulawski 2013: 28 (in catalogue of world Sphecidae sensu lato).

Material examined.

MALAWI: Domira Bay [13.35S, 34.27E], Lake Nyasa [Malawi], no date (J.B. Casey), 16 ♀♀; Salima Bay [13.47S, 34.26E], L. Nyasa, 5.xi.1943 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 2 ♀♀ [both SAMC ex NMBZ]. ZIMBABWE: Gwanda [20.57S, 29.02E], xi.1965 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♀; Sanyati Valley [17.57S, 29.18E], ix-x.1925 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 3 ♀♀; Sawmills [19.35S, 28.02E], 22.xii.1928 (Rhod. Museum), 2♀ ♀ [all SAMC ex NMBZ]. SOUTH AFRICA: Zululand [KwaZulu-Natal], Mfongosi [27.18S, 32.10E], iii.1914 (W. E. Jones), 1 ♀ [DMSA]; Limpopo, Ellisras [23.40S, 27.46E], 19.xii.1963 (H.N. Empey), 1 ♀ [AMGS].

Geographical distribution.

Previously published records are from Malawi and Zimbabwe; the present records extend the distribution south of the Limpopo ( Fig. 9b ).

Floral associations.

Unknown.

Nesting.

Unknown.

Prey.

Diptera : Bombyliidae and Sarcophagidae ( Sarcophaga sp.).

Figures

Figure 8. a Bembix spp.: Bembix diversipennis, female, male b Bembix flavicincta, female c Bembix fraudulenta, female, male d Bembix fuscipennis, southern melanistic form, female, male e Bembix fuscipennis, northern yellow form, female f Bembix harenarum, female, male. (approximate lengths of females: a 27 mm; b 22.5 mm; c 12.5 mm; d 18.5 mm; e 18 mm; f 15.5 mm)

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.