Author: Gess, Sarah.K. & Gess, F.W.
Title: Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums. Volume 18. Part 5. Flower Visiting By Masarid Wasps in Southern Africa ( Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Masaridae).
Description: Cape Provincial Museum, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Natural History. Volume 18. Part 5. 28th July 1989. Stapled wraps, p95-p134. illustrated, 184mm wide x 240mm high. New unread copy. Flower visiting records are given for 69 species belonging to six of the seven genera of Southern African masarid wasps: Ceramius (14 spp.), Jugurtia (4 spp.), Masarina (3 spp.), Celonites (8 spp.), Quartinia (10 spp.), and Quartinioides (30 spp.). The records so far assembled indicate that Southern African masarids are most commonly associated with Mesembryanthemaceae (51%) and Compositae (28%), those species visiting flowers of other families such as Campanulaceae (12%), Scrophulariaceae (5%), Leguminosae (Papilionatae) (3%) and Liliacea (2%) being the exceptions. It is demonstrated that the majority of species exhibit fidelity to particular families or even genera of plants and that some species at least are probably of importance as pollinators to the plants which they visit.

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


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