identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
3129074CA47D2112201DA947E8EEBEBE.text	3129074CA47D2112201DA947E8EEBEBE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Quartinia aerosa Gess 2011	<div><p>Quartinia aerosa sp. n. Figs 22-28</p> <p>Holotype.</p> <p>♀,SOUTH AFRICA: NORTHERN CAPE: Sutherland District: Rooikloof Farm (32.26S, 20.39E), 8.x.2009 (F. W. and S. K. Gess) (visiting yellow flowers of Leysera tenella DC., Asteraceae).</p> <p>Paratypes:</p> <p>SOUTH AFRICA: NORTHERN CAPE: Sutherland District: Rooikloof Farm (32.26S, 20.39E), 1-10.x.2009 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 21 ♀♀, 6 ♂♂ (12 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂ visiting yellow flowers of Leysera tenella; 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂ visiting pale violet flowers of Wahlenbergia near polyclada A.DC., Campanulaceae; 1 ♀ on ground between flowering plants of Wahlenbergia near polyclada; 3 ♀♀ from yellow pan trap associated with flowering plants of Wahlenbergia near polyclada and Selago p., Scrophulariaceae); same locality, 10.x.2009 (D. W. Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting ale violet flowers of Wahlenbergia near polyclada) [all AMG].</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>Small (2.8-3.1 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Head and mesosoma greenish-metallic. Tegula with posterior inner corner inwardly produced and angular, in dorsal view not attaining level of suture between mesoscutum and scutellum. Both sexes with head with white markings (crescent in ocular sinus, spot flanking inner margin of eye, spot on temple behind eye; male with white clypeus. Dorsum of propodeum with yellow marking.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Female (Figs 22, 24, 26):Head and mesosoma dark metallic green with, depending on the angle of illumination, reddish-bronze lustre; gaster black but depending upon the angle of illumination with a similar but reduced lustre. The following are whitish-yellow: underside of antennal club; crescent at bottom of ocular sinus; a small spot flanking inner margin of upper part of eye at level of ocelli (in majority of specimens); spot on temple behind top of eye; minute spot at postero-dorsal angle of pronotum; tegula anteriorly and posteriorly; small spot at top of mesopleuron (in majority of specimens); a minute to small transverse spot (tending to be suffused by light ferruginous) postero-medially on scutellum; scutellar lamella laterally; a minute spot to small transverse streak laterally on dorsum of propodeum (in majority of specimens). Yellow, to variable degree suffused by ferruginous (especially laterally), are transverse bands on terga I - V (those on terga II - V slightly anteriorly produced medially and laterally). Various shades of ferruginous are: apical half of mandible; apical third of tergum IV; sterna; apex of femur, part of tibia of all legs.</p> <p>Length: 3.04-3.08 mm (average of 3: 3.07 mm); length of fore wing: 2.08-2.12 mm (average of 3: 2.09 mm); hamuli 3.</p> <p>Head in front view 1.3 × as wide as long; POL: OOL = 1: 0.85. Clypeus 1.6 × as wide as long; anterior margin shallowly emarginate; lateral angles rounded.</p> <p>Head, mesosoma and gaster finely microsculptured (shagreened); punctures everywhere barely discernable.</p> <p>Male (Figs 23, 25, 27, 28):Head and mesosoma dark metallic green with, depending on the angle of illumination, reddish-bronze lustre; gaster black but depending upon the angle of illumination with a similar but reduced lustre. The following are whitish-yellow: underside of scape, pedicel, intermediate flagellomeres and proximal half of club; most of labrum; entire clypeus (except lamellate distal margin and, in some specimens, area immediately proximal to it); broad crescent at bottom of ocular sinus; small spot flanking inner margin of upper part of eye at level of ocelli; spot on temple behind top of eye; transverse band (in some specimens narrowed medially) on anterior margin of pronotum and small spot on postero-dorsal angle of same; humeral angle; tegula anteriorly and posteriorly; streak at top of mesopleuron; lateral and postero-medial spots on scutellum (lateral spots effaced in one specimen); scutellar lamella laterally; dorsum of propodeum. Yellow, to a variable degree suffused by ferruginous (especially laterally), are transverse bands on terga I - VI (those on terga II - IV slightly anteriorly produced medially and laterally). Various shades of ferruginous are: apical half of mandible; apical half of tergum VII; sterna; apex of femur, most of tibia and proximal three tarsomeres of all legs (last two tarsomeres darker).</p> <p>Length:2.8 mm(consistent for 3 specimens); length of fore wing 1.8 mm (consistent for 3 specimens); hamuli 3.</p> <p>Head in front view 1.3 × as wide as long; POL: OOL = 1: 0.9. Clypeus 1.7 × as wide as long; anterior margin shallowly emarginate; lateral angles rounded.</p> <p>Tergum VII with a deep V-shaped slit; lateral lobes smoothly rounded apically. Sterna atuberculate.</p> <p>Etymology.</p> <p>The name aerosa, a Latin female adjective meaning ore-coloured, refers to the greenish-metallic appearance of the head and mesosoma.</p> <p>Geographic distribution.</p> <p>At present known only from the type locality, Rooikloof Farm, near Sutherland, in the Arid Karoo and Desert False Grassveld of Acocks (1953).</p> <p>Floral associations.</p> <p>Asteraceae (Leysera), Campanulaceae (Wahlenbergia).</p> <p>Nesting.</p> <p>Unknown.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3129074CA47D2112201DA947E8EEBEBE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gess, Friedrich W.	Gess, Friedrich W. (2011): The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871
76C11C2581FD84A27D536DA7A14C969E.text	76C11C2581FD84A27D536DA7A14C969E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Quartinia helichrysi (Richards 1962)	<div><p>Quartinia helichrysi (Richards) Figs 29-31</p> <p>Quartinioides helichrysi Richards 1962: 175 (key), 198, female. Holotype: female Lesotho (formerly Basutoland): Mamalapi Mts (BMNH); Carpenter 2001: 25 (listed).</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>Small (2.8-3.5 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Head and mesosoma greenish-metallic. Tegula with posterior inner corner rounded, in dorsal view attaining level of suture between mesoscutum and scutellum.Female (male unknown) with head densely coriaceous, almost without punctures; mesoscutum sparsely punctured. Head with white marking in bottom of ocular sinus only.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Female (previously adequately described) (Figs 29, 30, 31).</p> <p>Material examined.</p> <p>LESOTHO (formerly Basutoland): Mamalapi Mtn, 28.xii.1948 (C. Jacot Guillarmod), 3 ♀♀ (on flowers of Helichrysum fulgidum) [AMG]. These specimens bear determination labels in Richards’ handwriting: " Quartinia sp. near metallescens Schulth." and, though not labelled as such, are clearly the paratypes recorded by Richards (1962: 198) as being in the collection of Mr C. F. Jacot Guillarmod. That collection was in 1958 incorporated by Jacot Guillarmod with that of the Albany Museum.</p> <p>Geographic distribution.</p> <p>Known only from the single locality in Lesotho.</p> <p>Floral associations.</p> <p>Asteraceae (Helichrysum fulgidum [probably = Helichrysum aureum (Houtt.) Merr.]).</p> <p>Nesting.</p> <p>Unknown.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/76C11C2581FD84A27D536DA7A14C969E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gess, Friedrich W.	Gess, Friedrich W. (2011): The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871
C6F67B52209BF0D47CFA4DA446262053.text	C6F67B52209BF0D47CFA4DA446262053.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Quartinia capensis Kohl	<div><p>Quartinia capensis Kohl Figs 1-7</p> <p>Quartinia capensis Kohl 1898: 365, female. Holotype: female, South Africa: Algoa Bay (Vienna). - von Schulthess 1929: 504 (key), 508 (listed); von Schulthess 1935: 386 (key), 389 (discussion); Carpenter 2001: 23 (listed).</p> <p>Quartinioides capensis (Kohl): Richards 1962: 173 and 175 (key), 185 (description of ♀, ♂; discussion).</p> <p>Quartinia scutellimacula von Schulthess 1929: 504 and 505 (key), 508, male, female. Lectotype; female, South Africa: Mossel Bay (BMNH). - von Schulthess 1930: 327 (key); Richards 1962: 187 (lectotype designation, discussion).</p> <p>Quartinia capensis scutellimacula von Schulthess: von Schulthess 1935: 386 (key), 389 (discussion).</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>Small to medium sized (2.9-3.8 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Tegula white anteriorly and posteriorly; posterior inner corner i nwardly produced. Black with white markings. Tibiae of female black except basally, those of male white. Male with labrum, clypeus, pair of large spots ventrally on frons, ocular sinus, streak on temple, underside of flagellomeres (except last flagellomere of club) white; clypeus falling steeply to anterior margin, with a marked median carina on anterior half.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Female (previously adequately described) (Figs 1, 3, 5).</p> <p>Male (previously adequately described) (Figs 2, 4, 6, 7).</p> <p>Material examined.</p> <p>SOUTH AFRICA: EASTERN CAPE: Skoenmakerskop (34.04S, 25.35E) [near Port Elizabeth], 8.xi.2006 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 4 ♀♀ (visiting white flowers of Sphalmanthus plenifolius (N. E. Br.) L. Bol., Aizoaceae: Mesembryanthema); same locality, 24.xi.2008 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting white flowers of Sphalmanthus plenifolius) [AMG].WESTERN CAPE: Fransmanspunt (34.18S, 21.57E) [near Mossel Bay], 22.i.2002 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 4 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂ (2 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂ visiting violet flowers of Limonium scabrum (Thunb.) Kuntze, Plumbaginaceae); 2 ♀♀ visiting pink flowers of " Drosanthemum " sp., Aizoaceae: Mesembryanthema) [AMG].</p> <p>Floral associations.</p> <p>Aizoaceae: Mesembryanthema (" Drosanthemum ", Sphalmanthus); Plumbaginaceae (Limonium).</p> <p>Nesting.</p> <p>Unknown.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C6F67B52209BF0D47CFA4DA446262053	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gess, Friedrich W.	Gess, Friedrich W. (2011): The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871
5229445B9AE95B839EF40829D006643F.text	5229445B9AE95B839EF40829D006643F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Quartinia senecionis (Richards 1962)	<div><p>Quartinia senecionis (Richards) Figs 8-14</p> <p>Quartinioides senecionis Richards 1962: female, male. Holotype: male, South Africa: Thaba Nchu (BMNH); Gess and Gess 1989: 128 (flower visiting); Gess 1996: 253 (flower visiting).</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>Small (2.5-3.0 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Tegula largely white, with a small brown area antero-medially; posterior inner corner absolutely rounded. Black with yellowish-white markings; mid and hind tibiae and tarsi mostly brown; frons and mesoscutum not appreciably shiny. Male with labrum, clypeus, large trapezoidal mark on frons, bottom of ocular sinus and spot on temple yellowish-white.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Female (previously adequately described)(Figs 8, 10, 12).</p> <p>Male (previously adequately described) (Figs 9, 11, 13, 14).</p> <p>Material examined.</p> <p>NAMIBIA: E[ast] of Gamsberg Pass (23.19S, 16.31E), 12.iii.1999 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 3 ♀♀, 1 ♂ (visiting yellow flowers of Pentzia incana (Thunb.) Kuntze, Asteraceae). LESOTHO (formerly Basutoland]: Mamathes [29.07S, 27.49E], 12.xii.1954 (C. Jacot Guillarmod), 6 ♀♀, 1 ♂ paratypes (on flowers of Felicia muricata (Thunb.) Nees, Asteraceae) [as Aster muricatus]. SOUTH AFRICA: FREE STATE (formerly Orange Free State): Chard, near Ficksburg (28.56S, 27.45E), 6-8. xii.2008 (F. W. and S. K.Gess), 16 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ (visiting flowers, disc yellow, rays mauve, of Felicia muricata); Thaba Nchu [29.13S, 26.51E], 1.xii.1952 (C. Jacot Guillarmod), 9 ♀♀, 1 ♂ paratypes (on Senecio laevigatus Thunb.); S of Ladybrand (29.14S 27.23 E), 9.xii.2008 (F.W. and S. K. Gess), 32 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ (visiting flowers of Felicia muricata); N of Wepener (29.27S, 27.13E), 9.xii.2008 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 1 ♂ (visiting flowers of Felicia muricata); 8 km NE Smithfield (30.09S, 26.36E), 3.xii.2008 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting flowers of Felicia muricata); 1 km NE Smithfield (30.11S, 26.33E), 3.xii.2008 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 5 ♀♀, 1 ♂ (visiting yellow flowers of Pentzia incana).EASTERN CAPE: Near Aliwal North (30.44S, 26.47E), 11.xii.2008 (F. W. and S. K. Gess), 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂ (visiting flowers of Felicia muricata) - [all AMG].</p> <p>Provenance of material examined by Richards (1962).</p> <p>SOUTH AFRICA: FREE STATE: Thaba Nchu [29.13S, 26.51E] (on flowers of Senecio laevigatus Thunberg). LESOTHO (formerly Basutoland): Mamathes [29.07S, 27.49E] (on flowers of Felicia muricata [as Aster muricatus]; Tebetebeng Mill [circa 29.11S 27.57E(on flowers of Gazania sp.).</p> <p>Geographic distribution.</p> <p>In Namibia the species if known only from E of the Gamsberg Pass in the Highland Savanna of Giess (1971). In South Africa it is known from several localities in the eastern Free State and from one locality in the north-eas tern Eastern Cape, these localities bordering Lesotho to the west and south respectively. From Lesotho itself it is known from two localities. All these southern localities are in Pure Grassveld, subdivided and characterised by Acocks (1953) as various types (nos. 48, 50 and 56) of Cymbopogon-Themeda Veld.</p> <p>Discussion of distribution.</p> <p>The apparent disjunct distribution, possibly no more than a consequence of a geographical hiatus of collecting, finds a striking parallel in the distribution of Jugurtia confusa Richards (see Gess 2004: 691 and Fig. 3f). That species, collected in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia at the same site and date as Quartinia senecionis, exhibits a more extensive development of the pale markings in comparison with specimens from the eastern Free State and Eastern Cape. No such geographical variation is evident with respect to Quartinia senecionis.</p> <p>Floral associations.</p> <p>Asteraceae (Felicia, Gazania, Pentzia and Senecio).</p> <p>Nesting.</p> <p>Unknown.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5229445B9AE95B839EF40829D006643F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gess, Friedrich W.	Gess, Friedrich W. (2011): The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871
616C09A43EA986A4447197D4085B5A41.text	616C09A43EA986A4447197D4085B5A41.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Quartinia aenea Gess 2011	<div><p>Quartinia aenea sp. n. Figs 15-21</p> <p>Holotype.</p> <p>♀, NAMIBIA: 10 km west of Aus (26.39S, 16.09E), 7.ix.2002 (F. W. and S. K. Gess) (visiting yellow fls of Leysera gnaphalodes (L.) L., Asteraceae) [AMG].</p> <p>Paratypes:</p> <p>NAMIBIA: c 15 km W Aus on road to Lüderitz [bucht] (26.37S, 16.06E), 21.ix.2003, 1 ♂ (visiting yellow fls, Asteraceae); NW Aus, drainage channel (26.37S, 16.12E), 17.ix.2005, 1 ♀ (visiting yellow fls Leysera [tenella DC.], Asteraceae); 10 km west of Aus (26.39S, 16.09E), 7.ix.2002, 39 ♀♀, 1 ♂ (visiting yellow fls of Leysera gnaphalodes (L.) L., Asteraceae); Klein-Aus Vista (26.39S 16.12 E), 8.ix.2002, 4 ♀♀ (visiting small yellow daisy [Dimorphotheca polyptera DC.], Asteraceae); SW Klein-Aus Vista (26.44S, 16.10E), 24.ix.2003, 1 ♀ (visiting yellow fls of Leysera, Asteraceae) - (all F. W. and S. K. Gess) [all AMG].</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>Small (2.7-3.2 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Head and mesosoma greenish-metallic. Tegula with posterior inner corner inwardly produced and angular, in dorsal view not attaining level of suture between mesoscutum and scutellum. Both sexes with head and dorsum of propodeum lacking white markings.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Female (Figs 15, 17, 19): Head and mesosoma dark metallic green with, depending on the angle of illumination, reddish-bronze lustre; gaster black. The following are whitish-yellow: underside of antenna; in a few specimens narrow transverse band, medially interrupted, on anterior margin of pronotum and in all specimens minute spot on postero-dorsal angle of same; tegula anteriorly and posteriorly; a minute to small spot postero-medially on scutellum; scutellar lamella laterally; posterior bands not reaching sides on terga I - IV (that on tergum I widest, those of terga II - IV anteriorly produced medially and laterally). Light ferruginous are: apex of femur of all legs, most of tibia of fore and middle legs, base and apex of hind leg, fore tarsomeres (in part). Darker ferruginous are: mandible distally; upper side of antenna; median band on hind tibia; tarsomeres (in part). Wings very lightly browned, slightly iridescent; veins brown.</p> <p>Length 3.04-3.2 mm (average of 3: 3.13 mm); length of fore wing 2.1 mm; hamuli 4.</p> <p>Head in front view 1.24 × as wide as long; microreticulate (shagreened); moderately shiny; with punctures barely discernable. POL: OOL = 1: 0.77. Clypeus 1.6 × as wide as long (to bottom of emargination); dorsal margin exceeding by about diameter of antennal socket level of an imaginary line joining top of antennal sockets; distal margin widely and shallowly emarginate, narrowly laminate.</p> <p>Mesosoma microreticulate (shagreened) like head; moderately shiny; with punctures slightly more obvious than on head.</p> <p>Gaster finely microreticulate, very indistinctly punctured, moderately shiny.</p> <p>Male (Figs 16, 18, 20, 21): Coloration and markings as in female, with in addition the following whitish-yellow markings: short band on anterior margin of pronotum; small spot on humeral angle and streak at top of mesopleuron (both in one specimen only); short transverse bands on terga V and VI. Apex of tergum VII and parameres ferruginous. Surface sculpture and puncturation as in female.</p> <p>Length 2.7 mm; length of fore wing 1.8 mm.</p> <p>Head 1.28 × as wide as long; POL: OOL = 1: 0.82.</p> <p>Tergum VII with a deep V-shaped slit; lateral lobes smoothly rounded apically. Sterna atuberculate.</p> <p>Etymology.</p> <p>The name aenea, a Latin female adjective meaning bronze- or ore-coloured, refers to the greenish-metallic appearance of the head and mesosoma.</p> <p>Geographic distribution.</p> <p>As far as indicated at present the species appears to be restricted to the area around Aus in south-western Namibia, in the Desert and Succulent Steppe of Giess (1971).</p> <p>Floral associations.</p> <p>Asteraceae (Dimorphotheca, Leysera).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/616C09A43EA986A4447197D4085B5A41	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gess, Friedrich W.	Gess, Friedrich W. (2011): The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871
518D1C06CD5DCDB16ABC53DC32AF728F.text	518D1C06CD5DCDB16ABC53DC32AF728F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Quartinia metallescens Gess 2011	<div><p>Quartinia metallescens von Schulthess Figs 32-34</p> <p>Quartinia metallescens von Schulthess 1929: 504, 505, female. Holotype: female, South Africa: Queenstown, 3500 feet (BMNH); von Schulthess 1935: 385 (key); Carpenter 2001: 26 (listed).</p> <p>Quartinioides metallescens (von Schulthess): Richards 1962: 175 (key), 196 (description of female, male).</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>Medium sized (3.8-4.2 mm). Fore wing with Cu1a and 2 m-cu present but attenuate, much thinner than other veins, and with 2 m-cu interrupted before reaching M. Head and mesosoma greenish-metallic. Tegula with posterior inner corner rounded, in dorsal view attaining level of suture between mesoscutum and scutellum. Head and thorax both with dense, very shallow, flat-bottomed punctures. Female head with white markings both in bottom of ocular sinus and at top of clypeus. Male head with mandibles, labrum, most of clypeus, lower part of orbits, ocular sinus, two frontal dots adjacent of clypeus and spot behind eye dorsally white.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Female (previously adequately described) (Figs 32, 33, 34).</p> <p>Material examined.</p> <p>SOUTH AFRICA: FREE STATE (formerly Orange Free State): Chard, near Ficksburg (28.56S, 27.45E), 6-8. xii.2008 (F. W. and S. K Gess), 1 ♀ (visiting yellow flowers of Berkheya sp., Asteraceae) [AMG]. LESOTHO (formerly Basutoland): Mamathes [29.07S, 27.49E], 9.xi.1952 (C. Jacot Guillamod), 2 ♀♀* (on flowers of Gazania longiscapa); Malubalube Str[ea]m, Teyateyaneng [29.08S 27.43E], 4.xi.1956 (C. Jacot Guillarmod), 2 ♀♀; Tebetebeng Mill [circa 29.11S 27.57E], 13.xi.1948 (C. Jacot Guillarmod), 1 ♀* (on flowers of Gazania sp.) [all AMG].</p> <p>Provenance of material examined by Richards (1962).</p> <p>SOUTH AFRICA: EASTERN CAPE: Queenstown [31.54S, 26.53E], 3500 feet. LESOTHO (formerly Basutoland): Tebetebeng [circa 29.11S 27.57E] (on flowers of Gazania sp.); Mamathes [29.07S, 27.49E] (on flowers of Helichrysum sp. and of Gazania longiscapa). In the paragraph above, material examined, the specimens marked with an * bear Richards’ determination labels.</p> <p>Geographic distribution.</p> <p>Known from the type locality in the north eastern Eastern Cape, one locality in the eastern Free State and three localities in Lesotho. All the localities are in Pure Grassveld, subdivided and characterised by Acocks (1953) as various types (nos. 48, 50 and 56) of Cymbopogon-Themeda Veld.</p> <p>Floral associations.</p> <p>Asteraceae (Berkheya, Gazania and Helichrysum).</p> <p>Nesting.</p> <p>Unknown.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/518D1C06CD5DCDB16ABC53DC32AF728F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gess, Friedrich W.	Gess, Friedrich W. (2011): The genus Quartinia Ed. Andre, 1884 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Southern Africa. Part V. New and little known species with incomplete venation. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 22: 29-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.22.871
