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''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. 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 Kalahar ...
during the late
Cretaceous period 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 t ...
. It contains the species ''Afrapia globularis'' and ''Afrapia variicornis''.


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