Ampulex conigera KOHL, 1893 Ampulex conigera n.sp.: KOHL 1893: 473-4 (key ♀, description ♀, Massawa), 491 (world catalogue), pl. 13 (fig. 59). Ampulex conigera KOHL, 1893: DALLA TORRE 1897: 374 (world catalogue: Ethiopia = Eritrea). Ampulex conigera KOHL, 1893: ARNOLD 1928: 200 (key ♀), 220 (English translation of original description, not seen). Ampulex conigera KOHL, 1893: ARNOLD 1930: 16 (catalogue Afrotropical region). Ampulex conigera KOHL, 1893: BOHART & MENKE 1976: 77 (world catalogue: Eritrea part of Ethiopia). D i s t r i b u t i o n:Massawa. Ampulex conigera is also recorded from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. The type should be deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (KOHL 1893: 474), but according to DOLLFUSS (1989: 7) the type is missing. GUIGLIA (1940: 292) notes, that F. Maidl (Natural History Museum Vienna)) has compared her ♀ from Ethiopia with a cotype. A recent search for the type was unsuccessful.

Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2023, A catalogue of the Ampulicidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of Eritrea, pp. 545-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 54 (2) on pages 545-546, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10414553