Quartinia bonaespei
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Vespidae
Genus: Quartinia
Name
Quartinia bonaespei Gess – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Quartinia bonaespei Gess, 2007: 213, figs 1, 7, ♀, ♂. Holotype: ♂, South Africa: Western Cape: on coast 4 km north of Bloubergstrand (AMG), geographic distribution, floral associations, nesting; Gess, 2009: 279 (additional material examined).
Additional material examined
SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE: Koeberg Nature Reserve (33.38S, 18.24E), 9 – 30.x.2010 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 7 ♀♀ (2 ♀♀ on sand beneath Trachyandra sp., Asphodelaceae; 3 ♀♀ on ground); same locality, 29.x.2010 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 5 ♀♀ (4 ♀♀ visiting purple flowers of Senecio cf. arenarius Thunb., Asteraceae); Melkbosstrand, Duynefontein (33.42S, 18.26E), 3 – 16.x.2010 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 32 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂ (1 ♂ on flowers of Trachyandra sp.; 1 ♀ on flowers of “purple daisy with yellow centre" [probably Senecio cf. arenarius]), 26 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ on sand beneath Trachyandra sp.); Melkbosstrand, Holgat to Kreefbaai (33.46S, 18.27E), 24 – 28.ix.2010 (D. W., G. T. and G. M. Gess), 38 ♀♀ (7 ♀♀ on flowers of Trachyandra sp.; 31 ♀♀ on sand beneath Trachyandra sp.) [all AMG].
Augmented floral associations
To the previously recorded Asphodelaceae (Trachyandra divaricata (Jacq.) Kunth., for which eight more records are added), and Aizoaceae: Mesembrianthema (including Conicosia and Drosanthemum), are added five records for Asteraceae (Senecio cf. arenarius Thunb.). It would appear that Trachyandra is a favoured forage flower and it is for this reason that so many specimens, both females and males, of the wasp have been caught resting on the sand beneath these plants.
Taxon Treatment
- Gess, F; 2012: The genus Quartinia Ed. André, 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: 95-115. doi
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