The wasp genus Sphex in Sub-Saharan Africa (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
Author
Dörfel, Thorleif H.
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Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
thorleif.doerfel@mfn.berlin
Author
Ohl, Michael
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Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
michael.ohl@mfn.berlin
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-02-23
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.796.1665
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Species of the
nigrohirtus
group
The
nigrohirtus
group contains the following five species:
Sphex ahasverus
,
S. camerunicus
,
S. incomptus
,
S. nigrohirtus
and
S. pulawskii
sp. nov.
Members are characterized through posteriorly-oriented erect propodeal setae, which they share with the species of the
bohemanni
group (
Fig. 1
). Distinguishing features between both are covered in the introduction to that group.