Showing papers on "Vespoidea published in 1983"

A catalogue of the families Stenogastridae and Vespidae from the Indian subregion (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea)

Abstract: Members of the families Stenogastridae and Vespidae belong to the Vespiformis Group of the superfamily Vespoidea. There is no recent catalog or even a check-list of species of these families covering the Indian subregion. The only available reference is “The Fauna of British India” Vol. I, by C.T. Bingham (1897), where the family Vespidae also included the members of the family Stenogastridae (as recognized here) under the genus Ischnogaster Guerin (now known as Sternogaster Guerin. Bingham treated 7 genera comprising 47 species. Dalla Torre (1904) largely followed Bingham's classification and included 51 species in 7 genera from the Indian subregion. Aiyar (1916) in his catalogue of wasps and bees (Fossores, Diploptera and Anthophila) of the Indian Region since 1897, included 47 species in 4 genera and also followed Bingham's classification. Liu (1936–37), in his catalogue of the Vespidae of China recorded 21 valid species under 5 genera from India and the neighboring countries. In the present c...

The Biology of Myrmoxenus Gordiagini Ruzsky a Slave-Making Ant(Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Abstract: M’rmoxenus gordiagini was described by Ruzsky (1902) from material which he had collected in the Akmolinsk area in Soviet Russia, near the town of Koktschetaw. The ant was always found living together with a newly described host species, Leptothorax serviculus Ruzsky. The colonies inhabited narrow galleries between and underneath small stones in the rocky slopes of a hilly region, with some birch and spruce trees. Finzi (1924) described a subspecies, Myrmoxenus gordiagini menozzii, from the Yugoslavian peninsula of Istria. Only one male and one female were found within moss and soil at the foot of an oak tree, together with numerous females and workers of Leptothorax un[’asciatus (Latreille). Finzi therefore believed that his new subspecies was living with that host species. Finally, in 1925, Soudek established a new genus, M’rmetaerus, for a new species, microcellatus, that he had collected near Kotor in Dalmatia, Yugoslavia. Although he explicitly discussed the close relationship of M. microcellatus with Myrmoxenus, he described this ant as representing a new species and genus \"as a provisional arrangement\" (Soudek, 1925). M. microcellatus was found under a stone in a deciduous forest, in a mixed colony with Lepto-

Descripción del macho de Messor hispanicus Santschi, 1919 (Hym., Formicidae)

Abstract: Se describe el macho de Messor hispanicus a partir de ejemplares localizados cerca de la capital cordobesa. Se realiza ademas una comparacion con otros machos de especies de Messor presentes en la zona.