Vanhartenidia Lelej, 2006 - a genus of German wasps from the subfamily Mutillinae .
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Distribution
Found from East Africa to India. Asia (Arabia, Yemen) and Afrotropic (Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia). [one]
Description
Small wasps (6-12 mm). The head is wider than the chest. Eyes protruding above the head. Males have 13-segmented antennae, females - 12-segmented. The body is in thick hairs. A female wasp sneaks into a strange nest and lays eggs on the host larvae, which feed their own larvae [1] .
Systematics
About 10 species. Belongs to the tribe Trogaspidiini . The genus was described and named by the Russian hymenopterologist A.S. Lelei in honor of Antonius van Harten , a collector of German Osenas from Yemen. Species from other genera were also transferred to the new genus: Eotrogaspidia ( E. dives - Lelej & Osten 2004), Dentotilla ( D. unguiculata - Nonveiller 1995) and Trogaspidia ( T. tricolor, T. unguiculata pyrrhospilota, T. unguiculata kassalana - Bischoff 1920) [1] .
- Vanhartenidia arabica Lelej, 2006 - Yemen
- Vanhartenidia dives (Smith, 1855) - India, Pakistan, Iran (= Eotrogaspidia dives )
- Vanhartenidia felix Lelej, 2006 - Yemen
- Vanhartenidia kassalana (Bischoff, 1920) [2] - Sudan (= Trogaspidia kassalana )
- Vanhartenidia pyrrhospilota (Bischoff, 1920) - Djibouti, Eritrea (= Trogaspidia pyrrhospilota )
- Vanhartenidia tihama Lelej, 2006 - Yemen
- Vanhartenidia tricolor (Klug, 1829) - Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia (= Trogaspidia tricolor )
- Vanhartenidia unguiculata (Magretti, 1883) - Djibouti, Somalia, Chad, Eritrea (= Dentotilla unguiculata )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Lelej & van Harten, 2006.
- ↑ Bischoff, H. (1920-1921) Monographie der Mutilliden Afrikas. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, (1920) 86A (1/3), 1-480; (1921) 86A (4), 481-830 + plates 1-7.
Literature
- Lelej & van Harten, 2006. A review of the Mutillidae (Hymenoptera) of Yemen. Zootaxa 1226: 1-50.