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Arge posterior Pasteels

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Argidae; Subfamily: Arginae; Genus: Arge)

Arge posterior Pasteels, 1963. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe).

Holotype BMNH
 

Distribution

Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

 Koch F. & Eardley C. 2011. Revision of the Afrotropical Arge mirabilipes group, with description of two new species and annotations to other Arge species of this region (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae). African Invertebrates 52: 457-470 http://dx.doi.org/10.5733/afin.052.0213

Koch F, Goergen G & van Noort S. 2015. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa 15: 1-262.

Pasteels, J. 1963. Prodrome d’une faune des Tenthredinoidea de l’Afrique noire. IV. 2e supplement aux Argidae. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Royale d’Entomologie de Belgique, Bruxelles 99(37): 540-560.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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