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Thyreus Panzer

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

Thyreus Panzer, 1806.

Classification

Thyreus species

 

Thyreus abyssinicus (Radoszkowski, 1873) (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus africana (Radoszkowski, 1893) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, “Central Africa”)

Thyreus albomaculatus (DeGeer, 1778) (Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus alfkeni (Brauns, 1909) (South Africa)

Thyreus axillaris (Vachal, 1903) (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus bouyssoui (Vachal, 1903) (Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus brachyaspis (Cockerell, 1936) (South Africa)

Thyreus calcaratus (Vachal) (Africa)

Thyreus calceatus (Vachal, 1903) (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus delumbatus (Vachal, 1903) (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus empeyi Eardley, 1991 (Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus erythraeensis (Meyer, 1921) (Ethiopia)

Thyreus forchhammeri Eardley, 1991 (Botswana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa)

Thyreus fortissimus (Cockerell & Mackie, 1933) (‘Africa’, Ethiopia)

Thyreus gambiensis (Cockerell & Mackie, 1933) (Nigeria)

Thyreus grahami (Cockerell, 1910) (Ghana, Nigeria)

Thyreus hyalinatus (Vachal, 1903) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan)

Thyreus interruptus (Vachal, 1903) (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda)

Thyreus kilimandjaricus (Strand, 1911) (Tanzania)

Thyreus lieftincki Rozen, 1969 (South Africa)

Thyreus maculiscutis (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Thyreus meripes (Vachal, 1903) (Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus neavei (Cockerell, 1933) (Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus nigoventralis (Meyer, 1921) (Ethiopia)

Thyreus niloticus (Cockerell, 1937) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus nubica (Lepeletier, 1841) (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan)

Thyreus oxyaspis (Cockerell, 1936) (South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus pica (Strand, 1911) (Namibia)

Thyreus pictus (Smith, 1854) (Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus plumifer (Brauns, 1909) (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus pretextus (Vachal, 1903) (Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Uganda)

Thyreus proximus (Meyer, 1921) (Sudan)

Thyreus quinquefasciatus (Smith, 1879) (Madagascar)

Thyreus scotaspis (Vachal, 1903) (Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda)

Thyreus sejuncta (Saussure, 1891) (Madagascar)

Thyreus somalicus (Strand, 1911) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Thyreus splendidulus (Lepeletier, 1841) (Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda)

Thyreus stellifera (Cockerell, 1936) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Thyreus strandi (Meyer, 1921) (Ethiopia)

Thyreus tschoffeni (Vachal, 1903) (Angola, Congo, Kenya, Zambia)

Thyreus vachali (Friese, 1905) (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Distribution

Old World: Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Cleptoparasitic, laying their eggs in other bees provisioned cells.

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).


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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