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Anthophora Latreille

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Apidae; Subfamily: Apinae; Tribe: Anthophorini)

Anthophora Latreille, 1802

Anthophora species (South Africa)
 

Anthophora abrochia Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (South Africa)

Anthophora albitomentosa Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (Namibia)

Anthophora angolensis (Dalla Torre, 1896) (Angola)

Anthophora appletoni Cockerell, 1946 (Somalia)

Anthophora armata Friese, 1905 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora argyrospila Cockerell, 1938 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Anthophora atrifrons Smith, 1854 (South Africa)

Anthophora auone Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (Angola, Namibia, South Africa)

Anthophora basalis Smith, 1854 (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)

Anthophora braunsiana Friese, 1905 (South Africa)

Anthophora candidifrons Cockerell, 1946 (Kenya)

Anthophora diversipes Friese, 1922 (South Africa)

Anthophora ekuivensis Cockerell, 1908 (Namibia)

Anthophora epichariformis Gribodo, 1893 (South Africa)

Anthophora eritrea Brooks, 1988 (Ethiopia)

Anthophora ferripicta Cockerell, 1935 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora flaviscopa Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (South Africa)

Anthophora glaucopis Friese, 1905 (Tanzania, Namibia)

Anthophora hastula (Vachal, 1909) (Ethiopia)

Anthophora hirtiventris Friese, 1911 (Namibia, South Africa)

Anthophora inclyta Walker, 1871 (Tanzania [?], Oriental, Palaearctic)

Anthophora joetta Brooks, 1988 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Anthophora kigomensis Cockerell, 1938 (Tanzania)

Anthophora kigonserana Friese, 1905 (Tanzania)

Anthophora kodrokonis Cockerell, 1946 (Sudan)

Anthophora kristenseni Friese, 1915 (Ethiopia)

Anthophora krugeri Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (South Africa)

Anthophora labrosa Friese, 1911 (Namibia, South Africa)

Anthophora leonis Cockerell, 1933 (South Africa)

Anthophora leucopyga Friese, 1911 (Zimbabwe)

Anthophora lomamica Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Anthophora lumbwana Cockerell, 1946 (Kenya)

Anthophora matopensis Cockerell, 1933 (Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora mephistophelicana Strand, 1911 (Namibia)

Anthophora micheneri Brooks, 1988 (Kenya)

Anthophora namaquensis Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (South Africa)

Anthophora neavei Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Anthophora nigrifacies Friese, 1905 (Ethiopia)

Anthophora oldi Meade–Waldo, 1914 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora padiola Vachal, 1909 (Kenya)

Anthophora perdita Cockerell, 1946 (Kenya)

Anthophora postica Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Anthophora praecox Friese, 1909 (Lesotho, South Africa)

Anthophora pygmaea Meade–Waldo, 1914 (Botswana, Zambia)

Anthophora pyropyga Dours, 1869 (Kenya, South Africa)

Anthophora rhodesiae Meade–Waldo, 1914 (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora ruficauda (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Anthophora rufolanata Dours, 1869 (Namibia, South Africa, Uganda)

Anthophora rufovestita Cockerell, 1946 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora schultzei Friese, 1909 (South Africa)

Anthophora strucki Eardley & Brooks, 1989 (South Africa)

Anthophora tetradonta Cockerell, 1933  (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora vestita Smith, 1854 (Angola, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora wartmanni Friese, 1905 (South Africa)

Anthophora xanthostoma Cockerell, 1932 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Anthophora zombana Cockerell, 1910 (Malawi)

Distribution

Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Also worldwide.

Biology

Solitary ground nesters. Visit flowers of a wide variety of plants.

References

Eardley, C & Urban, R. 2010. Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes). Zootaxa 2455: 1-548.

Eardley, C, Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp. 279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Eardley C, Kuhlmann M, Pauly A. 2010. The Bee Genera and Subgenera of sub-Saharan Africa. Abc Taxa vol 7: i-vi, 138 pp.

Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. 953 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Dave West (Randburg).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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