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Pachymelus Smith

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

Pachymelus Smith, 1879.
 

Pachymelus abessinicus (Friese, 1911) (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda)

Pachymelus androyanus Brooks & Pauly, 2001 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus bettoni (Cockerell, 1910) (Kenya)

Pachymelus beharensis Benoist, 1962 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus bicolor (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Pachymelus ciliatus Friese, 1922 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus claviger Benoist, 1962 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus conspicuus Smith, 1879 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia)

Pachymelus festivus (Dours, 1869) (Lesotho, South Africa)

Pachymelus flavithorax Benoist, 1962 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus heydenii (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Pachymelus hova (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Pachymelus lata (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Pachymelus limbatus (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Pachymelus micrephalus Smith, 1879 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus oculariellus Brooks & Pauly, 2001 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus ocularis (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Pachymelus peringueyi (Friese, 1911) (South Africa)

Pachymelus radovae (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Pachymelus ratsiraka Brooks & Pauly, 2001 (Madagascar)

Pachymelus reichardti Stadelmann, 1898 (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania)

Pachymelus unicolor (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Distribution

Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

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 © 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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