Ronisia is a genus of hymenopteran insects in the family of velvet ants.
The scientific name of the genus was published in 1858 by Achille Costa, in Fauna del regno di Napoli Vol. 6 nr. 1 (1858), Imenotteri Aculeati: Mutillidei, blz. 10. for Ronisia torosa from Italy, which Costa considered as unique. Later, others considered those to be the same as the earlier Mutilla barbara (Linnaeus, 1758). Costa later dropped usage of the genus name Ronisia and adopted usage of the genus Mutilla. In 1899, William Harris Ashmead further reclassified some Mutillidae, treating Ronisia as a current (i.e. valid) genus in the family Mutillidae. "Super-Families in the Hymenoptera and generic synopses of the Families Thynnidae, Myrmosidae and Mutillidae." Journal of the New York Entomological Society vol. VII, (1899), blz. 54.
Species Ronisia albertvillensis DR Congo Ronisia andromeda South Africa, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe etc. Ronisia angonina Central African Republic Ronisia barbara Algeria, Egypt, Italy, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia Ronisia barbarula Morocco, Portugal, Spain Ronisia basidens DR Congo Ronisia bequaerti DR Congo Ronisia bodenheimeri Israel Ronisia bolivari DR Congo, Nigeria Ronisia brachyptera Tanzania Ronisia brutia Europe (Widespread), Georgia, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Romania, Russia (West), Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine Ronisia callirhoe South Africa Ronisia citernii Ethiopia Ronisia clausi Tanzania Ronisia crudelis South Africa Ronisia elmira Zimbabwe Ronisia ghilianii Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia Ronisia glauce South Africa Ronisia idonea Chad, Yemen Ronisia idoneaemorpha DR Congo, South Africa Ronisia immaculata Tanzania Ronisia katangana DR Congo Ronisia kondowensis Malawi Ronisia maculosa Egypt, Libya Ronisia marcella Botswana, Zimbabwe Ronisia marocana Algeria, Egypt, France, Israel, Italy, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey Ronisia melanotica Malawi, South Africa Ronisia metella South Africa Ronisia nyikana Kenya Ronisia parasinuata Israel Ronisia penetrata Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia Ronisia philomela Namibia Ronisia puescheli Namibia Ronisia pygidialis Tanzania (Zanzibar) Ronisia raffrayi Ethiopia, Senegal Ronisia robecchii Somalia Ronisia scorteccii Libya, Somalia Ronisia straba Zanzibar Ronisia striata Cameroon, DR Congo Ronisia trispilota Zimbabwe Ronisia vassei Mozambique Ronisia wabonina Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa Ronisia wahrmani Israel
Else: Ronisia coelebs Cameroon, Nigeria nom. nud. / ; nom. nud. Ronisia elegans Cameroon, nom. nud. / ; nom. nud. Ronisia humilis Cameroon, Nigeria, nom. nud. Ronisia impressiventris Cameroon, nom. nud. / ; nom. nud.
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