Nemka viduata
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| ( Pallas , 1773) |
Nemka viduata is a hymenoptera fromthe ant family (Mutillidae).
features
The wasps have a body length of 6 to 15 millimeters (females) or 5 to 19 millimeters (males). The head and abdomen of the females are black, their thorax is light red, the antennae and legs are red to dark brown. The forehead, a round spot basal on the second tergite , the side edges and the end edge of this tergite, the third tergite and the end fringes of sternites two to four are lightly haired. The light end band on the second tergite is triangular in the middle towards the front. The first tergite is half as wide as the second; the sixth carries an oval pygidial plate with diverging longitudinally arranged wrinkles. The males are black except on the second tergite, which is colored red. The second and third tergite and parts of the forehead, the pronotum and the scutellum are lightly haired. The keel between the antennae towards the front plate ( clypeus ) is shorter than the antennae are wide. The large tegulae are bent backwards.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed in southern Europe, southern eastern Europe and the Balkans, east to Mongolia. You can also find them in the Aosta Valley . The larvae are parasitoids of digger wasps of the genera Gorytes , Bembix and Bembecinus .
supporting documents
F. Amiet: Fauna Helvetica 23: Vespoidea 1 . Center Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune, 2008, ISBN 978-2-88414-035-5 .