Bembix triangulifera Arnold, 1944

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 : 97-98

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scientific name

Bembix triangulifera Arnold
status

 

Bembix triangulifera Arnold Fig. 15a View Figure 15

Bembix stevensoni (non Parker) Arnold, 1929: 331, figs 3, 3a, 3b; Plate VI, fig. 48, ♂, (Holotype, ♂, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], Bulawayo, in SAMC ex NMBZ) (in revision of southern African Sphecidae ).

Bembix triangulifera Arnold, 1944: 23, ♀ (substitute name for Bembix stevensoni ); R. Bohart and Menke 1976: 549 (in checklist of world Sphecidae ); Pulawski 2013: 88 (in catalogue of world Sphecidae sensu lato).

Note.

The specific name, stevensoni, proposed by Arnold (December, 1929) is pre-occupied by stevensoni Parker (June, 1929) and in consequence Arnold (1944) proposed the substitute name triangulifera, at the same time describing the hitherto unknown female. However, both the holotype male and the allotype female are labelled in Arnold’s handwriting as angulifera, not triangulifera.

Material examined.

ZIMBABWE: W. Matetsi [18.15S, 25.55E], iv.1934 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 1 ♀; Sawmills [19.35S, 28.02E], 11.iii.1924 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 1 ♂; same locality and collector, 12.iii.1924, 1 ♂; Igusi [19.40S, 28.05E], 9.iii.1941 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 2 ♂♂; Umgusa Valley [20.02S, 28.34E], 16.ii.1941 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), allotype ♀, 1 ♂; Bulawayo [20.07S, 28.32E], 7.i.1923 (Rhodesia Museum), holotype ♂ [all SAMC ex NMBZ]. SOUTH AFRICA: MPUMALANGA: Newington, Komatipoort [25.25S, 31.55E], 9.i.1912 (J.P. Fenouhlet), 1 ♀; NORTH WEST PROVINCE: Rustenburg [25.41S, 27.14E], 1.viii.1967 (H.N. Empey), 1 ♂. NORTHERN CAPE: Campbell [28.48S, 23.44E], 7.i.1916 (collector ?), 1 ♀ [all AMGS].

Geographical distribution.

Known only from Zimbabwe and northern South Africa ( Fig. 16a View Figure 16 ).

Floral associations.

Unkown.

Nesting.

Unknown.

Prey.

Unknown

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Crabronidae

Genus

Bembix

Loc

Bembix triangulifera Arnold

Gess, Friedrich W. & Gess, Sarah K. 2014
2014
Loc

Bembix triangulifera

Arnold 1944
1944
Loc

Bembix stevensoni

J. Parker 1929
1929
Loc

Bembix stevensoni

J. Parker 1929
1929
Loc

Sphecidae

Latreille 1802
1802
Loc

Sphecidae

Latreille 1802
1802
Loc

Sphecidae

Latreille 1802
1802