Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Entomological News
Publication Date
2-1-1933
First Page
36
Last Page
39
Abstract
Some twenty years ago, in February, 1912, I spent a week at Kasenga, in the Katanga District of the southeastern Belgian Congo (in lat. 10° 15' S. and long. 28° 45' E.), waiting for an opportunity to continue my journey. One day I noticed a flourishing colony of Paranysson, melanopyrus (Smith) busily at work in the open central yard of the station. At that time, the habits of Paranysson were unknown and I am not aware that they have been studied to any extent since. G. Arnold (1923, Ann. Transvaal Mus., X, 1, p. 13) writes of this genus, apparently from personal observation: "These insects dig short and oblique tunnels in sandy soil. I have never found them with prey, the nature of which is still unknown. P. quadridentatus Cam. has a most powerful odor of bugs."
Recommended Citation
Bequaert, Joseph, "The Nesting Habits of Paranysson, an African Genus of Fossorial Wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphegoidea)." (1933). Ba. Paper 287.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_ba/287