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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2007" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="namaquensis">Quartinia namaquensis</taxonomicName>
Gess, 2007: 222, figs 3, 9. ♂. Holotype ♂, South Africa: Northern Cape: Leliefontein (AMG), geographic distribution, nesting; Gess, 2011a (additional material: ♂; not ♀♀ =
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conchicola">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="105">Quartinia conchicola</emphasis>
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Gess).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="105">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atlantica">Quartinia atlantica</taxonomicName>
Gess, 2011a: 5, figs 8 - 10. ♀. Holotype ♀, South Africa: Western Cape: Blaauwberg - Melkbosstrand (AMG), geographic distribution. syn. n.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="105">Notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="105">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atlantica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="105">Quartinia atlantica</emphasis>
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Gess, 2011 was described from the holotype ♀ from Blaauwberg - Melkbosstrand, collected on 5.x.2005 by F. W. and S. K. Gess and from an assemblage of a further 57 ♀♀ from the Koeberg Nature Reserve, the latter obtained by S. van Noort from yellow pan traps during the period 13. vi. - 28.xi.1997.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="105">Subsequent collecting at Koeberg Nature Reserve by D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess during the period 9 - 30.x.2010 and by F. W. and S. K. Gess during the period 29 - 30.x.2010 yielded a further 64 ♀♀ and 25 ♀♀ respectively. A total of 147 ♀♀ was therefore collected, however no males which could be ascribed to the species were found.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="105">
Persistent and diligent collecting by D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess at the Koeberg Nature Reserve at the beginning of following season, on 30 and 31 July 2011, was rewarded with the capture of both females of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atlantica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="105">Quartinia atlantica</emphasis>
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and of associated clearly conspecific males.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="105">
Examination of these males showed them to be conspecific, though showing some degree of melanism, with the type material of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2007" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="namaquensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="105">Quartinia namaquensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Gess, 2007, described from Leliefontein and from west of Wallekraal as also with the single male recorded (
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) from Sutherland.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">
<pageBreakToken pageId="11" pageNumber="106" start="start">In</pageBreakToken>
the light of the present association of males and females from Koeberg, it is clear that the females recorded (
<bibRefCitation author="Gess, FW" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research" pageId="17" pageNumber="112" pagination="1 - 39" publicationUrl="10.3897/JHR.21.870" refId="B7" refString="Gess, FW, 2011a. The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 21: 1 - 39, 10.3897/JHR.21.870" title="The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation." url="10.3897/JHR.21.870" volume="21" year="2011 a">Gess 2011a</bibRefCitation>
) from Sutherland as also those from Leliefontein and Remhoogte were erroneously assigned to
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">namaquensis</emphasis>
and described as such and that they are
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">conchicola</emphasis>
(Gess, 2007). As stated (
<bibRefCitation author="Gess, FW" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research" pageId="17" pageNumber="112" pagination="1 - 39" publicationUrl="10.3897/JHR.21.870" refId="B7" refString="Gess, FW, 2011a. The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 21: 1 - 39, 10.3897/JHR.21.870" title="The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part IV. New and little known species with complete venation." url="10.3897/JHR.21.870" volume="21" year="2011 a">Gess 2011a</bibRefCitation>
) these specimens are &quot;virtually indistinguishable from the female of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conchicola">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Quartinia conchicola</emphasis>
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Gess, the differences being subtle&quot;. Re-examination of the material suggests that rather than subtle the differences are illusory!
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">
Establishment of the present synonymy means that for
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2007" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="namaquensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Quartinia namaquensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
both male and true female are now known, as are an extended distribution down the west coast, floral associations and nesting.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="11" pageNumber="106" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Male</emphasis>
(previously adequately describedfrom Leliefontein and from west of Wallekraal: see Gess, 2007: 222, figs 3, 9; further illustrated in Gess, 2011a, figs 29, 31, 33 and 34).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">The recently collected males from Koeberg share with the type material and with the subsequently recorded male from Sutherland the following diagnostic characters: fore femur greatly swollen, its posterior surface in proximal half markedly concavely excavate, smooth and very shiny, its baso-ventral region angulate and sublamellate; tergum VII drawn out apico-medially into robust, pointed, dorsally flattened and apically narrowly pointed process; antennae noticeably attenuated.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">In comparison with the type material, the specimens are to some degree melanistic in so far that the posterior bands on terga I-V are reduced, being narrower and not reaching sides; that the band on tergum VI is absent; that the middle and hind femora and tibiae (except at the &quot;knees&quot;) are predominantly black and that the tarsomeres of these legs are dark brown.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Female</emphasis>
(previously adequately described from Koeberg as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atlantica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Quartinia atlantica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Gess (see Gess, 2011a: 5, figs 8 - 10), here sunk into synonymy.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">If the females from Koeberg follow the same tendency towards melanism as shown by the males from that locality in comparison with those from further north, then they may likewise in the north have more extensive pale markings and pale legs.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="11" pageNumber="106" type="additional material examined">
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Additional material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">
SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE: Koeberg Nature Reserve (
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,
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), 9 - 30.x.2010 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 64 ♀♀ (10 ♀♀ on sand beneath
<taxonomicName authorityName="Kunth" authorityYear="1843" class="Liliopsida" family="Asphodelaceae" genus="Trachyandra" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Asparagales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Trachyandra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.,
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; 23 ♀♀ on ground; 3 ♀♀ visiting white flowers of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apiaceae" genus="Capnophyllum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Apiales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="africanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Capnophyllum africanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(L.) W. D. J. Koch,
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); same locality, 29 - 30.x.2010 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 25 ♀♀ (14 ♀♀ visiting purple flowers of
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Asteraceae" genus="Senecio" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Campanulales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Senecio</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
cf.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">arenarius</emphasis>
Thunb.,
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; 2 ♀♀ visiting yellow flowers of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">&quot;</emphasis>
helichrysum&quot;,
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; 4 ♀♀ visiting yellow flowers of
<taxonomicName class="Eudicots" family="Aizoaceae" genus="Carpobrotus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Caryophyllales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Carpobrotus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.,
<taxonomicName genus="Aizoaceae" lsidName="" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" rank="genus">Aizoaceae</taxonomicName>
: Mesembryanthema; 2 ♀♀ visiting white flowers of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apiaceae" genus="Capnophyllum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Apiales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="africanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Capnophyllum africanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; 3 ♀♀ on ground); same locality, 30 &amp; 31.vii.2011 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 7♀♀, 9 ♂♂ (on ground) - [all AMG].
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Floral associations.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="12" lastPageNumber="107" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">
<taxonomicName genus="Aizoaceae" lsidName="" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" rank="genus">Aizoaceae</taxonomicName>
: Mesembryathema (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Carpobrotus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.);
<taxonomicName genus="Apiaceae" lsidName="" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" rank="genus">Apiaceae</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Apiaceae" genus="Capnophyllum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Apiales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="africanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Capnophyllum africanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(L.) W. D. J. Koch,);
<taxonomicName genus="Asteraceae" lsidName="" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" rank="genus">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Asteraceae" genus="Senecio" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Campanulales" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="106">Senecio</emphasis>
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sp. and &quot;helichrysum&quot;). To these may be added the record for the male from Sutherland:
<taxonomicName genus="Campanulaceae" lsidName="" pageId="11" pageNumber="106" rank="genus">Campanulaceae</taxonomicName>
<pageBreakToken pageId="12" pageNumber="107" start="start">(</pageBreakToken>
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Campanulaceae" genus="Wahlenbergia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Campanulales" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Wahlenbergia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
near
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">polyclada</emphasis>
A.DC.). [The records for the females from Sutherland, erroneously assigned to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2007" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="namaquensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Quartinia namaquensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, pertain to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="conchicola">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Quartinia conchicola</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.]
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="107" type="nesting">
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Nesting.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="107">West of Wallekraal one specimen, a male, freshly eclosed and with</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="107">
wings not yet fully hardened, was extracted from a cell of a nest in a sand-filled shell of the desert snail
<taxonomicName authorityName="Pilsbry" authorityYear="1905" class="Gastropoda" family="Dorcasiidae" genus="Trigonephrus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Trigonephrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (
<taxonomicName class="Pinopsida" family="Cupressaceae" genus="Mollusca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Pinales" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Mollusca</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1847" genus="Gasteropoda" lsidName="" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" rank="genus">Gasteropoda</taxonomicName>
;
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:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Connolly" authorityYear="1915" class="Gastropoda" family="Dorcasiidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Mollusca" rank="family">Dorcasiidae</taxonomicName>
) (
<bibRefCitation author="Gess, FW" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research" pageId="17" pageNumber="112" pagination="211 - 233" refId="B4" refString="Gess, FW, 2007. The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part I. Description of new species with complete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16: 211 - 233" title="The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part I. Description of new species with complete venation." volume="16" year="2007">Gess 2007</bibRefCitation>
: 221). Such sand-filled shells occur also at Koeberg and it is likely that there too
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gess" authorityYear="2007" class="Insecta" family="Masaridae" genus="Quartinia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="107" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="namaquensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Quartinia namaquensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
utilises them for nesting.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="107" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="107">
In the key to species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">Quartinia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
nesting in sand-filled snail shells (
<bibRefCitation author="Gess, FW" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research" pageId="17" pageNumber="112" pagination="211 - 233" refId="B4" refString="Gess, FW, 2007. The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part I. Description of new species with complete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16: 211 - 233" title="The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Part I. Description of new species with complete venation." volume="16" year="2007">Gess 2007</bibRefCitation>
: 227-228) the then unknown female of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">namaquensis</emphasis>
was not included.
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In the key the missing female of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">namaquensis</emphasis>
(as now identified from Koeberg) runs down to
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">australis</emphasis>
Gess, the characters given in the key being common to the females of both species, which indeed bear a close resemblance to one another though the relevant males are very different. The females may be distinguished, however, by the following characters. Though the tegulae are similarly marked and both have the inner posterior corner inwardly produced, that of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">namaquensis</emphasis>
is relatively longer (1.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
longer than wide) and more acutely pointed posteriorly than that of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">australis</emphasis>
(1.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
longer than wide). The mesoscutum of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">namaquensis</emphasis>
is very obviously and finely microsculptured (shagreened) with fine, discrete punctures; that of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">australis</emphasis>
less obviously shagreened with moderately coarse, close, at times subconfluent punctures. As far as is known, the areas of distribution of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">namaquensis</emphasis>
and of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="107">australis</emphasis>
are well separated.
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