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Belonogaster maculata Richards

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Polistinae; Genus: Belonogaster)

Belonogaster maculata Richards, 1982. Holotype: University Museum, Oxford. Type Locality: Mbale, Uganda.

Distribution

 Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Kenya, Uganda.

Biology

  

References

Richards, O.W. 1982. A revision of the genus Belonogaster de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.)  Vol 44: 31-114.

Selis, M, Longair RW. 2025. New data on the genus Belonogaster de Saussure, with establishment of the atrata species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Zootaxa 5692 (2): 353-368. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.8.

Credits

 

Photographs © Marco Selis.

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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