Geographical distributions of Bembix (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae, Bembicinae) in southern Africa, with notes on biology Author Gess, Friedrich W. Albany Museum and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6139 South Africa Author Gess, Sarah K. Albany Museum and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6139 South Africa text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2014 2014-02-14 36 53 130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.36.6491 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.36.6491 1314-2607-36-53 FFBD95640232FFFEFFBCFFC3D21A8E1E 574835 Bembix massaica Cameron Fig. 10 Bembex massaica Cameron, 1908: 290, ♂, ♀ (Syntypes, Tanzania, Mt Meru lowlands, Ngare na nyuki, and Tanganyika [Tanzania], Usambara Mts, Mombo, in NMBZ); Turner 1917a : 439 (as synonym of Bembex forcipata ); Arnold 1929 : 365 (in revision of southern African Sphecidae ); Arnold 1930 : 21 (in checklist of Afrotropical Sphecidae ); Arnold 1933 : 359 (Ethiopia). Bembix massaica Cameron & Guiglia, 1943: 75 (Ethiopia, Gamo Gofa, Caschei); R. Bohart and Menke 1976 : 546 (in checklist of world Sphecidae , as synonym of Bembex forcipata ); Pulawski 2013 : 44 (in catalogue of world Sphecidae sensu lato, as valid species). Note. Described by Cameron (1908) from Tanganyika [Tanzania]. Arnold (1929) recorded the species from East Africa and Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] and (1951) from Ethiopia. Figure 10. Bembix massaica , female, male. (approximate length of female: 15.5 mm) Material examined. KENYA: Luvia Island, Lake Victoria, 14.iv.1952 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia) 2 ♀♀. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC): Lake Mweru [ 9.10N , 28.30E ], Lunchinda River, 15.ii.1953 (H.D. Brown) 1 ♀ [AMGS]. ZIMBABWE: Balla-Balla [Mbalabala] [ 20.45S , 29.05E ], 1.iv.1945 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia) 1 ♀; Bembesi 20.00S , 28.56E ], 4.i.1913 (G. Arnold) 2 ♀♀; Bulawayo [ 20.07S , 28.32E ], 20.vi.1923 (R. Stevenson) 1 ♀, 28.x.1923 (R. Stevenson) 1 ♀, 27.xii.R.H.R. Stevenson) 1 ♀, 28.xii.1924 (R.H.R. Stevenson) 1 ♀ [all SAMC ex NMBZ]; Redbank [ 20.1S , 27.46E ], 3.xii.1917 (G. Arnold) 1 ♂; Salisbury [now Harare] [ 17.48S , 31.03E ], ii.1932 (Dept. Agric.) 1 ♂; Sawmills [ 19.35S , 28.02E ], 11.iv.1941 (Rhodesia Museum) 1 ♂; Selukwe [ 19.41S , 29.59E ], xii.1940 (??) 1 ♂, 2.i.1941 (??) 1 ♂; Turk Mine [ 19.44S , 28.48E ], xi.1958 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia) 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 24.xi.1958 (Nat. Museum S. Rhodesia) 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Umguza R. [ 20.1S , 30.51E ], 24.v.1923 (Swinburne and Stevenson) 2 ♂♂; Umtali [Mutare] [ 18.57S , 32.40E ], ii.1917 (Rhodesia Museum) 1 ♂ [all SAMC ex NMBZ]. Geogrphical distribution. Known from Ethiopia and the DRC in the north to Zimbabwe. Not recorded south, east or west of Zimbabwe. Flower associations. Unknown. Nesting. Unknown. Prey. Unknown.