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Scrapter heterodoxus (Cockerell)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Colletidae; Subfamily: Colletinae; Genus: Scrapter)

Polyglossa heterodoxus Cockerell, 1921. Lectotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Cape Town, South Africa.

Polyglossa peringueyi Cockerell, 1921. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Knysna, South Africa. Synonymy by Eardley, 1996.

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

On flowers of: Arctotheca calendula, Arctotheca sp., Arctotis sp., Dimorphotheca sp., Gazania
sp., Osteospermum sp. (Eardley & Urban, 2010).

Reference

Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.

Eardley, C.D. 1996. The genus Scrapter Lepeletier and Serville (Hymenoptera: Colletidae).
African Entomology 4: 37-92.

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.

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

Credits

Photographs and 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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