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Par Jean-Luc Renneson :
Genus - Zethus Fabricius, 1804
Le genre Zethus comprend 15 espèces en Afrique.
The Zethusgenus include 15 species mainly represented in Africa.
Zethus aethiopicus Giordani Soika, 1940 ( Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania)
Zethus bilaminatus Giordani Soika, 1940 ( Namibia, South Africa, Zambia)
Zethus brooksi Giordani Soika, 1992 ( South Africa)
Zethus delagoensis de Schulthess-Schindler, 1899 ( Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and R.D.Gongo)
Zethus empeyi Giordani Soika, 1979 ( South Africa)
Zethus favillaceus Walker, 1871 ( Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Also in the Palaearctic Region)
Zethus guineensis Gusenleitner, 2005 ( Republic of Guinea)
Zethus madecassus von Schulthess, Rechberg, 1907 ( Madagascar)
Zethus ( Zethus ) namibicus Gusenleitner, 1997 (Namibia)
Zethus pubescens Smith, 1857 ( ( Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Zethus ( Zethus ) rhodesianus Giordani Soika, 1940 ( Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Zethus rodhaini Bequaert, 191 8 ( Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon)
Zethus rothschildanus (du Buysson, 1906) ( Ethiopia, Kenya)
Zethus senegalensis Giordani Soika, 1979 ( Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali, Niger, Senegal)
Zethus yarrowi Giordani Soika, 1979 ( Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Références :
Bequaert, J. 1918. Vespidae of the Belgian Congo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1-384.
Bequaert, J. 1926 . The genus Eumenes Latreille, in South Africa, with a revision of the Ethiopian species (Hymenoptera.) Annals of the South African Museum 23 : 483–577.
Carpenter, J.M. 1986. A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 93: 61-90.
Carpenter, J. M. & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.
Carpenter, J.M. , J. Gusenleitner, & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner, 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638.
Carpenter, J.M. , J. Gusenleitner, & M. Madl. 2010a. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure, 1885 to Zethus Fabricius, 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315.
Carpenter, J.M. , J. Gusenleitner, & M. Madl. 2010b. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part III: Classification, Additions, Corrections and Index. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 919-1004.
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