<documentID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.21.870"ID-GBIF-Dataset="024b6721-657c-469c-9bc5-2fb0fac4f884"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2607-21-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="FFA3E36FB9245951FB58FF84FF913F2C"ID-Zenodo-Dep="574747"ID-ZooBank="AE1D69FBFB3A4ECFB3E08ED5B5E9AE5B"ModsDocAuthor=""ModsDocDate="2011"ModsDocID="1314-2607-21-1"ModsDocOrigin="Journal of Hymenoptera Research 21"ModsDocTitle="The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation"checkinTime="1451252507017"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Gess, Friedrich W."docDate="2011"docId="05800FB02D68B73E779A5DDCD4752801"docLanguage="en"docName="JourHymenoptRes 21: 1-39"docOrigin="Journal of Hymenoptera Research 21"docPubDate="2011-03-10"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.21.870"docTitle="Quartinia vagepunctata von Schulthess"docType="treatment"docVersion="5"id="FFA3E36FB9245951FB58FF84FF913F2C"lastPageNumber="31"masterDocId="FFA3E36FB9245951FB58FF84FF913F2C"masterDocTitle="The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation"masterLastPageNumber="39"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="27"updateTime="1732479330079"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="5CA009705D315E3B5EF353B55C05B25B">The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation</mods:title>
<bibRefCitationid="45DC0731DEAF6A6FAB077D4BFEB7BFAB"author="Schulthess, A von"journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"pagination="498 - 511"refId="B12"refString="Schulthess, A von, 1929. Contribution to the knowledge of African Masaridae (Vespoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 3: 498 - 511"title="Contribution to the knowledge of African Masaridae (Vespoidea)."volume="3"year="1929">von Schulthess 1929</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="DF34F7603AB626C2747633934F2BDA24"author="Schulthess, A von"journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"pagination="383 - 390"refId="B13"refString="Schulthess, A von, 1935. Some more South African Masaridae (Vespoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 16: 383 - 390"title="Some more South African Masaridae (Vespoidea)."volume="16"year="1935">von Schulthess 1935</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="D2D3C42B0F7EF2842FB849F0398FBEA0"author="Richards, OW"journalOrPublisher="British Museum (Natural History), London"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"refId="B11"refString="Richards, OW, 1962. A revisional study of the masarid wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). British Museum (Natural History), London, 294 pp."title="A revisional study of the masarid wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea)"year="1962">Richards 1962</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="E856E597EA31477D6EC4AB50B71841A7"author="Gess, FW"journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"pagination="145 - 155"refId="B7"refString="Gess, FW, Gess, SK, 1992. Ethology of three southern African ground nesting Masarinae, two Celonites species and a silk spinning Quartinia species, with a discussion of nesting by the subfamily as a whole (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 1: 145 - 155"title="Ethology of three southern African ground nesting Masarinae, two Celonites species and a silk spinning Quartinia species, with a discussion of nesting by the subfamily as a whole (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)."volume="1"year="1992">Gess and Gess 1992</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="4D098896BA0C655A3C9419CFC85DC8A3"author="Gess, SK"journalOrPublisher="Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"refId="B8"refString="Gess, SK, 1996. The Pollen Wasps: Ecology and Natural History of the Masarinae. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 340 pp."title="The Pollen Wasps: Ecology and Natural History of the Masarinae"year="1996">Gess 1996</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="F3A6626EA8EC5FDE15BB378C5A563A20"author="Carpenter, JM"journalOrPublisher="American Museum Novitates"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"pagination="1 - 39"refId="B3"refString="Carpenter, JM, 2001. Checklist of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera Vespidae. American Museum Novitates 3325: 1 - 39"title="Checklist of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera Vespidae."volume="3325"year="2001">Carpenter 2001</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="A709723B61FE68717E79AC0CAC11BFE6"author="Gess, SK"journalOrPublisher="Department of Entomology, Albany Museum, Grahamstown"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"refId="B9"refString="Gess, SK, Gess, FW, 2003. A catalogue of flower visiting records for aculeate wasps and bees in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa. Department of Entomology, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 529 pp."title="A catalogue of flower visiting records for aculeate wasps and bees in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa"year="2003">Gess and Gess 2003</bibRefCitation>
complete and as thick as other veins. Both sexes with thorax and gaster shiny with fine punctures; scutellum markedly convex. Female with scutellum black with black lamella. Male with mandible black and tip ferruginous; labrum testaceous to black with white spot; clypeus black with white marking; antennal club ferruginous; frons medially on lower half with yellowish-white marking of variable size and shape; scutellum with pair of postero-medial white spots; sternumVII almost glabrous and apically with a few large, curved, golden setae.
This common and widely distributed species shows a considerable variation in colour pattern within a population at any particular locality as well as, in some instances, consistent variations between populations from different localities. This is particularly evident in the males but applies to a lesser extent also to the females. In the descriptions below specimens from the population at 15 km N of Nieuwoudtville on the road to Loeriesfontein [Skuinshoogte Pass] are chosen as representing the
<bibRefCitationid="B14FC547E5B8818457CEC70986B7ECD2"author="Richards, OW"journalOrPublisher="British Museum (Natural History), London"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"refId="B11"refString="Richards, OW, 1962. A revisional study of the masarid wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). British Museum (Natural History), London, 294 pp."title="A revisional study of the masarid wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea)"year="1962">Richards (1962: 169)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="430BF0D83F18348420B24DD981DE38B4"author="Gess, FW"journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"pagination="145 - 155"refId="B7"refString="Gess, FW, Gess, SK, 1992. Ethology of three southern African ground nesting Masarinae, two Celonites species and a silk spinning Quartinia species, with a discussion of nesting by the subfamily as a whole (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 1: 145 - 155"title="Ethology of three southern African ground nesting Masarinae, two Celonites species and a silk spinning Quartinia species, with a discussion of nesting by the subfamily as a whole (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)."volume="1"year="1992">Gess and Gess 1992</bibRefCitation>
). The specimens from Skuinshoogte are in accord with the redescription of females by Richards. One of the localities from which Richards had material, "Doorn R. Falls", is the same as the presently recorded "Doringrivier N of Nieuwoudtville" and "Nieuwoudtville Falls, 5 km N of Nieuwoudtville" and is a mere seven kilometres in a direct line from the Skuinshoogte site.
<paragraphid="91675530CE17F3D6D1C3278F33FA3E74"pageId="27"pageNumber="28">In contrast to typical females, females from N. of Annis River, in accord with the males from that locality, have the propodeal angles and the greater part of the gaster ferruginous. Females from 16 km S of Rosh Pinah in Namibia are of similar appearance. However, females from Springbok and Anenous are of intermediate coloration.</paragraph>
): Black. The following are yellowish-white: labrum (in part; in a few specimens from N. of Annis River only); marking of variable size and shape medially on clypeus (in specimens from Skuinshoogte covering all of disk except narrow testaceous distal margin and lateral parts below antennal insertions but in some reduced to an inverse triangle; in some specimens
N of Annis River further reduced or totally absent); marking of variable size and form medially on lower half of frons (in specimens from Skuinshoogte wedge-, hour-glass- or mushroom-shaped, mostly but not always rising from clypeo-frontal suture; in specimens from N of Annis River varying from an upwardly widened, tri-pointed, crown-like shape extending to upper level of ocular sinus to, at its greatest reduction, a number of disorientated small spots); small streak (in some specimens ferruginous or totally effaced) margining bottom of ocular sinus; scape, pedicel and underside of proximal flagellomeres; pair of medially separated triangular markings on anterior margin of pronotum joined to or separated from marking of variable size on humeral angle; postero-dorsal angle; spot at top of mesopleuron; tegula anteriorly and posteriorly; pair of small spots (in some specimens fused, in others much reduced to totally absent) postero-medially on scutellum); scutellar lamella (in all specimens from N of Annis River; pale colour well developed, reduced or absent in specimens from Skuinshoogte); posterior bands (becoming progressively shorter and narrower) on terga I - VI; apex of femur, dorsal surface of tibia, proximal tarsomeres of all legs. The following are various shades of ferruginous: apical half of mandible; labrum (generally but see exception above); antero-lateral regions of clypeus (in some specimens only); distal flagellomeres (particularly on underside); tegula medially; propodeal angles (in specimens from N of Annis River, betw. Annis and Dabie Rivers, Springbok, Anenous, Klipfontein,Wildeperdehoek and Nuwerus but not or at most barely indicated in a few specimens from Skuinshoogte); lateral regions of terga I - VI including lateral extremities of posterior bands (to varying extent in specimens from Skuinshoogte; more extensive in specimens from N of Annis River and from betw. Annis and Dabie Rivers in which most of gaster is this colour); tergum VII; parameres; sterna (following trend of terga); distal tarsomeres of all legs.
<paragraphid="F663CD76E8D3D2334AAA98B6530D1078"pageId="28"pageNumber="29">Length 3.6-4.2 mm (average of 3: 4.0 mm; length of front wing 2.4-2.6 mm (average of 3: 2.5 mm); hamuli 5.</paragraph>
) - [all AMG]. SOUTH AFRICA: NORTHERN CAPE: 24 km N of Annis River crossing by road to Sendelingsdrif (28.14S, 16.55E), 21.ix.1997 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 65 ♀♀, 9 ♂♂ (visiting yellow fls with white bracts of
); on r[oa]d to Richtersveld N[ational] P[ark] bet. Annis and Dabie R[ivers] (28.20S, 16.55E), 19.ix.1997 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 1 ♂ (visiting yellow fls of
); 12 Mi[les]W [of] Steinkopf [29.14S, 17.35E], 3.xi.1968 (J. G. Rozen and E. Martinex) 2 ♀♀ (det. J. M. Carpenter, 1986) [AMNH]; Namaqualand, Anenous (29.14S, 17.35E), 11-13.x.1988 (D. W. Gess), 1 ♀; same locality, 12.x.1989 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 36 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ (29 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ visiting fls of
); same locality and dates (D. W. Gess), 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Namaqualand, [Springbok], Goegap Nat[ure] Res[erve], Kraaiwater (29.38S, 18.00E), 29.ix.1997 (F. W. and S. K.Gess), 3 ♀♀ (visiting fls of
); 6-13 Mi[les] S [of] Mesklip [circa 29.57S, 17.54E], 21.x.1968 (J. G. Rozen and E. Martinez), l ♀ [AMNH]; 25 km N [of] Kamieskroon (30.01S, 17.53E), 17.x.2000 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 6 ♀♀ (visiting yellow fls of
); 15 km N of Nieuwoudtville on road to Loeriesfontein (bottom of Skuinshoogte Pass) (31.16S, 19.08E), 3-8.x.1989 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 60 ♀♀, 40 ♂♂ (53 ♀♀, 27 ♂♂ visiting fls of
); same locality and date (D. W. Gess and S. K. Gess), 2 ♀♀; same locality and date (D. W. Gess), 2 ♀♀, 1♂; same locality, 27.ix.1990 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 66 ♀♀, 7 ♂♂ (18 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂ on yellow fls of
sp.; 2 ♀♀ in nesting area; 1 ♀ general); Doringrivier N of Nieuwoudtville (31.18S, 19.07E), 28.ix.1990 (C. Eardley), 22 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ [SANC]; Nieuwoudtville Falls, 5 km N of Nieuwoudtville (31.19S, 19.07E), 28.ix.1990 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 3 ♀♀ (on yellow fls of
); Calvinia (31.27S, 19.45E, 1050 m), 7.xii.1996 (J. Carpenter and A. Davidson), 1 ♀ (det. J. M. Carpenter) [AMNH]; Nieuwoudtville/Calvinia, 25km E of Nieuwoudtville (31.29S, 19.19E), 18.x.2000 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 6 ♀♀ (5 ♀♀ visiting yellow fls of
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<bibRefCitationid="7E9CFEAC6D72EB4CC955D69E0F51706F"author="Acocks, JPH"journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa"pageId="32"pageNumber="33"pagination="1 - 192"refId="B2"refString="Acocks, JPH, 1953. Veld types of South Africa. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 29: 1 - 192"title="Veld types of South Africa"volume="29"year="1953">Acocks (1953)</bibRefCitation>
<paragraphid="2EF0890A2CBD38F3EDF65C1F5CB269CE"pageId="30"pageNumber="31">Nest a subvertical silk-lined burrow in friable soil, surmounted by a sand and silk turret and having an excavated cell in which is a constructed sand and silk cell. (See: Gess and Gess, 1992; Gess, S. K., 1996: 108-111, 115).</paragraph>
