A new species of Masarina Richards 1962 from southern Africa, description of the female of Masarina ceres Gess 1997 and supplementary data on three other species of the genus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae)
Author
Gess, Friedrich Wolfgang
Albany Museum and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140 South Africa
text
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2012
2012-03-23
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83
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.25.2442
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.25.2442
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Masarina mixta Richards
Masarina mixta
Richards, 1962: 271, ♀; 268 (key to
Masarina
). Holotype: ♀, South Africa: Northern Cape: Nieuwoudtville (BMNH); Gess in
Gess and Gess 1988
:
353
(key to
Masarina
); Gess, S.K.
1996
: 243, 244, 280, 299, 300, 301 (flower visiting);
Gess 1997
: 71-73 (key to
Masarina
);
Carpenter 2001
: 19 (listed);
Gess and Gess 2003
: 57 (flower visiting, abbreviated collecting localities);
Gess 2005
: 11-14 (key to
Masarina
);
Gess and Gess 2010
: 45 (listed), 108 (flower visiting).
Additional material examined.
SOUTH AFRICA: NORTHERN CAPE: Leliefontein (
30.23°S
,
18.16°E
), 14.x.2002, 1 ♂ (white trap), 21.ix.2004, 3 ♀♀ (yellow trap); Remhoogte (
30.23°S
,
18.16°E
), 7.x.2002, 1 ♂ (white trap) - (all C. Mayer); Sutherland district, Rooikloof Farm (
32.26°S
,
20.39°E
), 30.ix.2009, 2 ♂♂ (visiting pale violet flowers
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
A. DC.,
Campanulaceae
), 1.x.2009, 1 ♀, 2 ♂♂ (on ground between plants of
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
), 5.x.2009, 2 ♂♂ (1 ♂ visiting pale violet flowers of
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
), 8.x.2009, 2 ♂♂ (visiting pale violet flowers of
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
), 9.x.2009, 3 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂ (1 ♀ visiting pale violet flowers of
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
; 2 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂ from yellow pan traps associated with
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
), 10.x.2009, 2 ♀♀ (visiting pale violet flowers of
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
) - (all F. W. and S. K.Gess); same locality, 10.x.2009 (D. W. Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting pale violet flowers of
Wahlenbergia
near
polyclada
) - [all AMG].
Provenance of previously examined specimens as recorded in abbreviated form in
Gess and Gess (2003)
.
SOUTH AFRICA: NORTHERN CAPE: Richtersveld National Park; Kamiesberg; Nieuwoudtville. WESTERN CAPE: Clanwilliam; Clanwilliam/Graafwater; Clanwilliam/Citrusdal.
Floral associations.
Campanulaceae
(
Wahlenbergia
). Previously found associated principally with the flowers of various species of
Wahlenbergia
, less commonly with flowers of
Fabaceae
:
Papilionoideae
(
Aspalathus
),
Malvaceae
(
Hermannia (Mahernia)
), and
Scrophulariaceae
(
Peliostomum
) (see
Gess and Gess 2003
: 57).