''Afromaimetsha robusta'' is an extinct species 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. Th ...

which existed in

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kal ...

during the late

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...

period, and the only species in the genus ''Afromaimetsha''.

References

Stephanoidea Prehistoric Hymenoptera genera Late Cretaceous insects Hymenoptera of Africa Fossil taxa described in 2009 Late Cretaceous animals of Africa {{Cretaceous-insect-stub