Quartinia arenaria Gess

Gess, Friedrich W., 2012, The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part VI. New and little known species both with complete and incomplete venation, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 24, pp. 95-115 : 95-96

Quartinia arenaria Gess

Quartinia arenaria Gess, 2011a: 2, figs 1 - 7. ♀, ♂. Holotype ♂, South Africa: Western Cape: S, of Yserfontein (AMG), geographic distribution, floral associations.

Additional material examined.

SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE: Melkbosstrand, Duynefontein (33.42S, 18.26E), 3 - 16.x.2010 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 18 ♀♀, 26 ♂♂ (7 ♀♀, 8 ♂♂ on sand beneath Trachyandra sp., Asphodelaceae ; 1 ♂ on flower of large pink mesem, Aizoaceae : Mesembryanthema); Koeberg Nature Reserve (33.38S, 18.24E), 9 - 30.x.2010 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 74 ♀♀, 106 ♂♂ (28 ♀♀, 82 ♂♂ on sand beneath Trachyandra sp., Asphodelaceae ; 3 ♀♀ visiting white flowers of Capnophyllum africanum (L.) W. D. J. Koch, Apiaceae ; 24 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ on ground); same locality, 29 - 30.x.2010 (F.W. and S. K. Gess), 52 ♀♀, 11 ♂♂ (3 ♀♀, 6 ♂♂ visiting purple flowers of Senecio cf. arenarius Thunb., Asteraceae ; 1 ♀, 1 ♂ visiting yellow flowers of Senecio sp., Asteraceae ; 14 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂ visiting yellow flowers of "helichrysum", Asteraceae ; 5 ♀♀ visiting yellow flowers of Carpobrotus sp., Aizoaceae : Mesembryanthema; 7 ♀♀ visiting white flowers of Capnophyllum africanum ; 22 ♀♀ on ground) - [all AMG].

Augmented floral associations.

To the previously recorded Aizoaceae : Mesembryanthema ( Conocosia sp. and Drosanthemum sp.) are added Carpobrotus sp. and "large pink mesem"; Apiaceae ( Capnophyllum africanum (L.) W. D. J. Koch) and Asteraceae ( Senecio spp. and "helichrysum")