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Belonogaster turbulenta Kohl

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

Belonogaster turbulentus Kohl, 1894. Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Type Locality: Sierra Leone.
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Distribution

 Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sierra Leone.

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 © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or 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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