strucki, Gess

Gess, Friedrich Wolfgang, 2012, A new species of Masarina Richards 1962 from southern Africa, description of the female of Masarina ceres Gess 1997 and supplementary data on three other species of the genus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 25, pp. 83-92 : 89-90

Masarina strucki Gess

Masarina strucki Gess in Gess and Gess 1988: 352, female. Holotype: ♀, South Africa: Northern Cape: Goegap Nature Reserve near Springbok (AMG); Gess 1997: 58, ♂, figs 19-22 (♀ and ♂ head, ♂ genitalia), 71-73 (key to ♀, ♂); Gess (S. K. et al.), 1997: 81-86 (flower visiting; nesting); Carpenter 2001: 20 (listed); Gess and Gess 2003: 57 (flower visiting, abbreviated collecting localities); Gess 2005: 12-4 (key to ♀, ♂); Gess and Gess 2010: 45 (listed), 109 (flower visiting), Figs. 67, 70, 71, 72 (nesting).

Additional material examined.

SOUTH AFRICA: NORTHERN CAPE: Leliefontein (30.23°S, 18.14°E), 1.x.2003, 1 ♀, 6 ♂♂, 4.x.2003, 1 ♀ (yellow + white pan traps); Witwater (30.23°S, 18.13°E), 4.x.2003, 1 ♀ (yellow + white pan traps), 8.ix.2004, 1 ♂ (white pan trap) - (all C. Mayer) [all AMG]; Nieuwoudtville Flower Reserve East (31.22 19.09E) (730m),1.ix.2002 (M. Kuhlmann), 1 ♂, 5.ix.2002 (M. Kuhlmann), 1 ♂ [Kuhlmann Collection, London].

Provenance of previously examined specimens.

See Gess and Gess (2003: 58).