Afrotremex violaceus Pasteels, 1951

van Noort, Simon & Goulet, Henri, 2015, New distribution records for the rare genus Afrotremex Pasteels (Siricidae: Hymenoptera) and provision of interactive Lucid identification keys to species, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 7160-7160 : 7160

Afrotremex violaceus Pasteels, 1951

Materials

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Rev. P. Van Eyen; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; disposition: damaged; Taxon: scientificName: Afrotremexviolaceus Pasteels, 1951; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Siricidae; genus: Afrotremex; specificEpithet: violaceus; scientificNameAuthorship: Pasteels, 1951; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: country: Democratic Republic of Congo; locality: Mayidi ; verbatimLocality: Mayidi; Identification: identifiedBy: J. Pasteels; Henri Goulet; dateIdentified: 1951; 2015; Event: eventDate: 1942; year: 1942; verbatimEventDate: 1942; Record Level: modified: 10/17/2015; language: en; collectionID: BMNH; institutionCode: BMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

See Goulet 2014. Photographs of the additional paratype female are provided in Figs 1, 2.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo

Biology

Unknown.