Author: Gess, F.W. & Gess, S.K.
Title: Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums. Volume 9. Part 11. An Ethological Study of Dichragenia Pulchricoma (Arnold) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), a Southern African Spider-Hunting Wasp Which Builds a Turreted, Subterranean Nest.
Description: Cape Provincial Museums, Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Natural History. Volume 9. Part 11. 15th May 1974. Printed wraps, stapled, p.187-p.214, illustrated. 184mm wide x 240mm high. New unread copy. It is estimated that at present between five hundred and six hundred species of the family Pompilidae have been described from the Ethopian Region excluding Madagascar. As far as can be ascertained, not a single African species has been studied with respect to its ethology; indeed, the only published biological information pertaining to these nearly six hundred species appears to consist of about half a dozen prey records involving as many species of wasps, a list of species visiting a plant attractive to Hymenoptera, and a few other fragments in which the identity of the wasp concerned is not clearly stated.

Keywords: albany museum eastern cape cape provincial museum south southern africa african grahamstown hymenoptera pompildae entomology insects wasps


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