''Afrapia'' is an extinct genus of
wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder ...
which existed in
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...
during the late
Cretaceous period
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ninth and longest geologi ...
.
It contains the species ''Afrapia globularis'' and ''Afrapia variicornis''.
References
Stephanoidea
Prehistoric Hymenoptera genera
Late Cretaceous insects
Late Cretaceous animals of Africa
Fossil taxa described in 2009
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