Quartinia capensis Kohl

Gess, Friedrich W., 2011, The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22, pp. 29-43 : 30-31

Quartinia capensis Kohl Figs 1-7

Quartinia capensis Kohl 1898: 365, female. Holotype: female, South Africa: Algoa Bay (Vienna). - von Schulthess 1929: 504 (key), 508 (listed); von Schulthess 1935: 386 (key), 389 (discussion); Carpenter 2001: 23 (listed).

Quartinioides capensis (Kohl): Richards 1962: 173 and 175 (key), 185 (description of ♀, ♂; discussion).

Quartinia scutellimacula von Schulthess 1929: 504 and 505 (key), 508, male, female. Lectotype; female, South Africa: Mossel Bay (BMNH). - von Schulthess 1930: 327 (key); Richards 1962: 187 (lectotype designation, discussion).

Quartinia capensis scutellimacula von Schulthess: von Schulthess 1935: 386 (key), 389 (discussion).

Diagnosis.

Small to medium sized (2.9-3.8 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Tegula white anteriorly and posteriorly; posterior inner corner i nwardly produced. Black with white markings. Tibiae of female black except basally, those of male white. Male with labrum, clypeus, pair of large spots ventrally on frons, ocular sinus, streak on temple, underside of flagellomeres (except last flagellomere of club) white; clypeus falling steeply to anterior margin, with a marked median carina on anterior half.

Description.

Female (previously adequately described) ( Figs 1, 3, 5 ).

Male (previously adequately described) ( Figs 2, 4, 6, 7 ).

Material examined.

SOUTH AFRICA: EASTERN CAPE: Skoenmakerskop (34.04S, 25.35E) [near Port Elizabeth], 8.xi.2006 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 4 ♀♀ (visiting white flowers of Sphalmanthus plenifolius (N. E. Br.) L. Bol., Aizoaceae : Mesembryanthema); same locality, 24.xi.2008 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting white flowers of Sphalmanthus plenifolius ) [AMG].WESTERN CAPE: Fransmanspunt (34.18S, 21.57E) [near Mossel Bay], 22.i.2002 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 4 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂ (2 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂ visiting violet flowers of Limonium scabrum (Thunb.) Kuntze, Plumbaginaceae ); 2 ♀♀ visiting pink flowers of " Drosanthemum " sp., Aizoaceae : Mesembryanthema) [AMG].

Floral associations.

Aizoaceae : Mesembryanthema (" Drosanthemum ", Sphalmanthus ); Plumbaginaceae ( Limonium ).

Nesting.

Unknown.

Figures

Figures 1 - 7. Quartinia capensis 1 ♀, lateral view (x 13) 2 ♂, lateral view (x 15) 3 ♀, dorsal view (x 13) 4 ♂, dorsal view (x 15) 5 ♀, head, front view (x 16) 6 ♂, head, front view (x 20) 7 ♂, tergum VII, dorsal view (x 22).