Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Annals of the Transvaal Museum
Volume
12
Publication Date
1-1-1928
First Page
233
Last Page
279
Abstract
GENERAL CHARACTERS. The eyes usually reach the base of the mandibles, but sometimes they are separated from them by short cheeks. Maxillary palpi 6-, labial palpi 4-jointed. Mandibles not excised on the outer margin. Antennae 13-jointed in the 12-jointed in the . Flagellum filiform. Pro-notum as high as the mesonoturn, or not much lower; the pronotal tubercles do not extend back as far as the tegulae. Epicnemium absent, the episternal suture usually present. Epinotum large. Abdomen petiolate, the petiole formed only by the sternite of the first segment, or in forms with a 2-jointed petiole, by the sternite and tergite of the first segment. Pygidial area absent. Middle tibiae with two spurs.
Recommended Citation
Arnold, George, "The Sphegidae of South Africa" (1928). An. Paper 116.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_an/116