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<taxonomicName authorityName="Handlirsch" authorityYear="1893" class="Insecta" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moebii">
Bembex
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Handlirsch, 1893: 775, pl. 2, fig. 2, pl. 7, fig. 1, ♂, ♀, (Syntypes, Mozambique, Delagoa Bay [Maputo], in ZMHB);
<bibRefCitation author="Dalla Torre, KW von" journalOrPublisher="Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus" pageId="53" pageNumber="106" pagination="1 - 749" refId="B27" refString="Dalla Torre, KW von, 1897. . Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus Volumen VIII: 1 - 749" volume="Volumen VIII" year="1897">Dalla Torre 1897</bibRefCitation>
: 508 (in catalogue of world
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="89">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Handlirsch" authorityYear="1893" class="Insecta" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moebii">Bembex moebii</taxonomicName>
Handlirsch &amp; Arnold, 1929: 343, figs 13, 13a, pl. 6, fig. 7, ♂, ♀ (nesting situation) (in revision of southern African
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" class="Hexapoda" family="Sphecidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphecidae</taxonomicName>
);
<bibRefCitation author="Arnold, G" journalOrPublisher="University Press, Cambridge, England" pageId="52" pageNumber="105" pagination="1 - 21" refId="B2" refString="Arnold, G, 1930. A check-list of the Sphegidae of the Ethiopian Region. University Press, Cambridge, England: 1 - 21" title="A check-list of the Sphegidae of the Ethiopian Region." year="1930">Arnold 1930</bibRefCitation>
: 21 (in checklist of Afrotropical
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" class="Hexapoda" family="Sphecidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphecidae</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="89">
<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembix" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mobii">Bembix mobii</taxonomicName>
(sic) Handlirsch &amp; Parker, 1929: 83 (in revision of
<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" rank="tribe" tribe="Stizini">Stizini</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" lsidName="" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" rank="tribe" tribe="Bembicini">Bembicini</taxonomicName>
), ♂.
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="89">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Handlirsch" authorityYear="1893" class="Hexapoda" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembix" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moebii">Bembix moebii</taxonomicName>
Handlirsch &amp; Giordani Soika, 1939: 105 (Mai Daro, Eritrea);
<bibRefCitation author="Bohart, RM" journalOrPublisher="The Annals and Magazine of natural History (series 7)" pageId="52" pageNumber="105" refId="B16" refString="Bohart, RM, Menke, AS, 1976. Sphecid wasps of the world. University of California Press, Berkley: i-ix, 1-695." title="Sphecid wasps of the world. University of California Press, Berkley: i-ix, 1 - 695." year="1976">R. Bohart and Menke 1976</bibRefCitation>
: 547 (listed in checklist of world
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" class="Hexapoda" family="Sphecidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphecidae</taxonomicName>
);
<bibRefCitation author="Gess, FW" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the Cape Provincal Museums (natural History)" pageId="54" pageNumber="107" pagination="137 - 160" refId="B42" refString="Gess, FW, 1986. Three new species of southern African Bembix, a new synonymy, and biological notes on other species of the genus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Nyssoninae). Annals of the Cape Provincal Museums (natural History) 16: 137 - 160" title="Three new species of southern African Bembix, a new synonymy, and biological notes on other species of the genus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Nyssoninae)." volume="16" year="1986">Gess 1986</bibRefCitation>
: 154, 158 (prey);
<bibRefCitation author="Pulawski, WJ" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington" pageId="55" pageNumber="108" publicationUrl="http://research.calacademy.org/ent/catalog_sphecidae" refId="B65" refString="Pulawski, WJ, 2013. Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding Apidae)., http://research.calacademy.org/ent/catalog_sphecidae" title="Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding Apidae)" url="http://research.calacademy.org/ent/catalog_sphecidae" year="2013">Pulawski 2013</bibRefCitation>
: 49 (in catalogue of world
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" class="Hexapoda" family="Sphecidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphecidae</taxonomicName>
sensu lato).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1910" class="Insecta" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="testaceicauda">Bembex testaceicauda</taxonomicName>
Cameron, 1910: 144, ♀ (Holotype or syntype, South Africa, former Transvaal, no locality, in TMSA);
<bibRefCitation author="Brauns, H" journalOrPublisher="Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie" pageId="53" pageNumber="106" pagination="16 - 19" refId="B17" refString="Brauns, H, 1911. Biologisches ueber suedafrikanische Hymenoptera. Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie 7: 16 - 19" title="Biologisches ueber suedafrikanische Hymenoptera." volume="7" year="1911">Brauns 1911</bibRefCitation>
: 241 (synonymised with
<taxonomicName authorityName="Handlirsch" authorityYear="1893" class="Hexapoda" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembix" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="89" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moebii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="89">Bembix moebii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="89">Note.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="37" lastPageNumber="90" pageId="36" pageNumber="89">
This species was described by
<bibRefCitation author="Handlirsch, A" journalOrPublisher="Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abtheilung I" pageId="55" pageNumber="108" pagination="657 - 942" refId="B53" refString="Handlirsch, A, 1893. Monographie der mit Nysson und Bembex verwandten Grabwespen. VII. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abtheilung I: 657 - 942" title="Monographie der mit Nysson und Bembex verwandten Grabwespen. VII. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen." year="1893">Handlirsch (1893)</bibRefCitation>
from Delagoa Bay (Mozambique).
<bibRefCitation author="Arnold, G" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the Transvaal Museum" pageId="52" pageNumber="105" pagination="320 - 380" refId="B1" refString="Arnold, G, 1929. The Sphegidae of South Africa. Part 13. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 13: 320 - 380" title="The Sphegidae of South Africa. Part 13." volume="13" year="1929">Arnold (1929)</bibRefCitation>
recorded the species from Delagoa Bay and from four localities
<pageBreakToken pageId="37" pageNumber="90" start="start">in</pageBreakToken>
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe): Victoria Falls, Sawmills, Sabyati Valley and Umtali.
<bibRefCitation author="Parker, JB" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the United States National Museum" pageId="55" pageNumber="108" pagination="1 - 203" publicationUrl="10.5479/si.00963801.75-2776.1" refId="B63" refString="Parker, JB, 1929. A generic revision of the fossorial wasps of the tribes Stizini and Bembicini, with notes and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 75: 1 - 203, 10.5479/si.00963801.75-2776.1" title="A generic revision of the fossorial wasps of the tribes Stizini and Bembicini, with notes and descriptions of new species." url="10.5479/si.00963801.75-2776.1" volume="75" year="1929">Parker (1929)</bibRefCitation>
doubtfully referred to this species a specimen labelled &quot;Bosum, 22-4-14, Tessman&quot;. The synonym,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1910" class="Hexapoda" family="Crabronidae" genus="Bembix" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="90" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="testaceicauda">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="90">Bembix testaceicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, was described by
<bibRefCitation author="Cameron, P" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the Transvaal Museum" pageId="53" pageNumber="106" pagination="116 - 167" refId="B20" refString="Cameron, P, 1910. On the Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A.J.T. Janse, Normal College, Pretoria, in the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2: 116 - 167" title="On the Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Mr. A. J. T. Janse, Normal College, Pretoria, in the Transvaal." volume="2" year="1910">Cameron (1910)</bibRefCitation>
from the neighbourhood of Pretoria (Gauteng).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="37" pageNumber="90">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="37" pageNumber="90">
TANZANIA: Old Shinyanga [
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,
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), 7.xii.1954 (E. Burtt), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]. ZAMBIA: Abercorn [now Mbala] [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="31.24" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="31.24">31.24E</geoCoordinate>
], x.1943 (Nat.Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♀, 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; same locality, viii.1945 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Kafue Hoek (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="90">sic</emphasis>
), [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="28.10" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="28.1">28.10E</geoCoordinate>
], 15.xii.1955 (C.B. Cottrell), 1 ♀ [AMGS]. ZIMBABWE: Victoria Falls [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="25.50" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="25.5">25.50E</geoCoordinate>
], 15.xi.1920 (G. Arnold), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; same locality, 18.xi.1920 (Rhodesia Museum), 1 ♂ [AMGS]; Katambora, Zambesi R. [?], ix.1957 (Nat.Museum S. Rhodesia), 2 ♂♂ [1 ♂ SAMC ex NMBZ; 1 ♂ AMGS]; Sanyati Valley [
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,
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], ix.-x.1925 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 5 ♂♂ [2 ♂♂ SAMC ex NMBZ; 3 ♂♂ AMGS]; same locality, ix.-xii.1925 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 2 ♂♂ [1 ♂ AMGS, 1 ♂ SAMC ex NMBZ]; Matetsi [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="25.55" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="25.55">25.55E</geoCoordinate>
], x.1933 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; same locality, xii.1935 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ];Wankie [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="26.30" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="26.3">26.30E</geoCoordinate>
], 24.xii.1946 (collector undecipherable), 1 ♀ [AMGS]; Umtali [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="32.40" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="32.4">32.40E</geoCoordinate>
], 19.x.1939 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Sawmills [
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,
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], 10.xii.1926 (R.H.R. Stevenson), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; same data but 11.xii.1926, 1♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; same locality, 12.xii.1926 (Rhod. Museum), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Sawmills Rd, Nyamandhlovu [
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,
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], 27.xi.1960 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Nyamandhlovu [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="28.15" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="28.15">28.15E</geoCoordinate>
], xi.1966 (Nat.Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]. ANGOLA: Sambo (SE 1216 Cc) [
<geoCoordinate degrees="13.03" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-13.03">13.03S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="16.08" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="16.08">16.08E</geoCoordinate>
], 10.x.1972 (no collector recorded), 1 ♀ [NMNW]. BOTSWANA: Khwaai R., 3000' [feet], (
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="23.48" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="23.48">23.48E</geoCoordinate>
), 80 m[iles] N. of Maun, 10.xii.1968 (Pinhey-Falc. Exp., Nat. Mus. Bulawayo), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; same data except date 12.xii.1968, 1 ♀. MOZAMBIQUE: Salone Forest, 25 m[iles] S [of] Marromeu [
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,
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], 10.xi.1967 (E. Pinhey, Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Dondo [
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="34.45" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="34.45">34.45E</geoCoordinate>
], xii.1960 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Dondo Forest, 27.x.1963 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Dondo Forest, 28.x.1963 (Nat, Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Dondo Forest, Dondo, 13.xi.1967 (E. Pinhey, Nat. Mus. Bulawayo), 1 ♀ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Beira [
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,
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], xii.1960 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♀, 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Hmselezwe River [co-ordinates?], 23.xi.1939 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]; Msappa R. [co-ordinates?], 6.x.1950 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 2 ♀♀, (1 ♀ partial gynandromorph: antennae ♂; body ♀), [SAMC Old Shinyanga ex NMBZ], 3 ♂♂ [AMGS]; Msappa R.(co-ordinates?) Chimanimani Mts [circa
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,
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], 6.x.1950 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia), 1 ♂ [SAMC ex NMBZ]. NAMIBIA: Andara, Kavango (SE 1821 Ab) [
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,
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], 20-25.vii.1971 (no collector recorded), 3 ♂♂ [NMNW]; Popa Falla, Kavango (
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="21.33" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="21.33">21.33E</geoCoordinate>
) 26-31.vii.1971 (no collector recorded), 4 ♂♂ [NMNW]. SOUTH AFRICA: LIMPOPO: Waterberg Dist. [
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,
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], 1898-99 (v. Jutrzencka), 2 ♀♀ [AMGS]; KWAZULU-NATAL: Ngwxala Hill [? co-ordinates], no date (no collector recorded), 1 ♀ [DMSA].
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<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">
<pageBreakToken pageId="38" pageNumber="91" start="start">Geographical</pageBreakToken>
distribution.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">
A widespread species in northern southern Africa (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figure 12. Distributions of collection records of Bembix spp.: a Bembix karroensis b Bembix liturata c Bembix loupata d Bembix melanopa e Bembix moebii f Bembix monedula." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/11861" pageId="38" pageNumber="91">Fig. 12e</figureCitation>
) northwards to Tanzania and recorded from Ethiopia in northeast Africa but not from northwest Africa.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="38" pageNumber="91" type="floral associations">
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">Floral associations.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="38" pageNumber="91">Unknown</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="38" pageNumber="91" type="nesting">
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">Nesting.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">
Nests in shady situations such as
<normalizedToken originalValue="“ant-bear”">&quot;ant-bear&quot;</normalizedToken>
holes and sandy ground under dwellings built on piles.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="38" pageNumber="91" type="prey">
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">Prey.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="38" pageNumber="91">
Recorded taking one family of
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:
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.
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</subSubSection>
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