Bibliography for Masarinae

• Bequaert, J.C. 1928. A study of certain types of diplopterous wasps in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 2: 138-176
• Bradley, J.C. 1922. The taxonomy of the masarid wasps, including a monograph on the North American species. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 1: 369-464
• Carpenter, J.M. 1982. The phylogenetic relationships and natural classification of the Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 7: 11-38
• Carpenter, J.M. 1989. The phylogentic system of the Gayellini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 95: 211-241
• Carpenter, J.M. 1997. Generic classification of the Australian Pollen Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69(4 (supplement)): 384-400 [Date published 15/01/97]
• Gess, F.W. 1995. Descriptions of the male of Riekia nocatunga Richards, the male and two strikingly distinct sympatric colour forms of Riekia confluens (Snelling) and the male of Rolandia angulata (Richards) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) from Australia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 4: 33-40
• Gess, F.W. 1998. Priscomasaris namibiensis Gess, a new genus and species of Masarinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Namibia, Southern Africa, with a discussion of its position within the subfamily. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 7(2): 296-304
• Gess, F.W., Gess, S.K. & Gess, R.W. 1995. An Australian masarine, Rolandia angulata (Richards) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): Nesting and evaluation of association with Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 4: 25-32
• Gess, F.W. & Gess, S.K. 1992. Ethology of three southern African ground nesting Masarinae, two Celonites species and a silk-spinning Quartinia species, with a discussion of nesting by the subfamily as a whole (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 1(1): 145-155
• Gess, S.K. 1992. Biogeography of the masarine wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), with particular emphasis on the southern African taxa and on corerelations between masarine and forage plant distributions. Journal of Biogeography 19: 491-503
• Gess, S.K. 1996. The Pollen Wasps. Ecology and natural history of the Masarinae. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press x 340 pp.
• Hacker, H. 1915. Notes on the genus Megachile and some rare insects collected during 1913–14. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 137-141 [Date published 31/12/1915]
• Houston, T.F. 1984. Bionomics of a pollen-collecting wasp, Paragia tricolor (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 141-151
• Houston, T.F. 1986. Biological notes on the pollen wasp Paragia (Cygnaea) vespiformis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) with description of a nest. Australian Entomological Magazine 12(6): 115-118 [Date published 02/86]
• Houston, T.F. 1995. Notes on the ethology of Rolandia maculata (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae), a pollen wasp with a psammophore. Records of the Western Australian Museum 17(3): 343-349
• Meade-Waldo, G. 1910. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 30-51 [Jan. 1910]
• Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. Notes on the family Masaridae (Hymenoptera), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 747-750
• Naumann, I.D. & Cardale, J.C. 1987. Notes on the behaviour and nests of an Australian masarid wasp Paragia (Paragia) decipiens decipiens Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Masaridae). Australian Entomological Magazine 13(5–6): 59-65 [Date published 02/87]
• Richards, O.W. 1962. A Revisional Study of the Masarid Wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). London : British Museum 294 pp.
• Richards, O.W. 1968. New records and new species of Australian Masaridae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 101-104
• Saussure, H. de 1853. Note sur la tribu des Masariens et principalement sur le Masaris vespiformis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 1: xvii-xxi
• Saussure, H. de 1854. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. Troisième Partie comprenant la Monographie des Masariens et un Supplément à la Monographie des Eumeniens. Paris : Masson 1-48 pls i-v. [for publication date Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (pages and plates published)]
• Saussure, H. de 1855. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. Troisième Partie comprenant la Monographie des Masariens et un Supplément à la Monographie des Eumeniens. Paris : Masson 49-288 pls vi-xiv. [Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (dates pages and plates published)]
• Schulz, W.A. 1906. Spolia Hymenopterologica. Paderborn : Pape iii 356 pp. 1 pl. [Date published 31/12/1906]
• Shuckard, W.E. 1838. Descriptions of new exotic aculeate Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 68-82 pl. viii
• Smith, F. 1850. Descriptions of two new species of exotic Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2 1: 41-42 pl. v
• Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collections of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London : British Museum pp. 1-147.
• Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new species of Australian Hymenoptera, and of a species of Formica from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 53-62 [Date published 31/12/1862]
• Smith, F. 1865. Descriptions of some new species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the families Thynnidae, Masaridae, and Apidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 2: 389-399 [Date published 31/12/1865]
• Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868]
• Smith, F. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of exotic Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869: 301-311 pl. vi
• Snelling, R.R. 1986. The taxonomy and nomenclature of some Australian Paragiine wasps (Hymenoptera: Masaridae). Contributions in Science. Los Angeles 378: 1-19 [Date published 03/09/86]
• Turner, R.E. 1908. Two new diplopterous Hymenoptera from Queensland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1908: 89-91
• Turner, R.E. 1936. A new masarid wasp from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 18: 352
• van der Vecht, J. & Carpenter, J.M. 1990. A catalog of the genera of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 260: 1-62

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