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Scrapter niger Lepeletier & Serville

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

Scrapter niger Lepeletier & Serville, 1828. Holotype inParis (MNHN). Type locality: "afriq. Cafrarie, Delaland".

Scrapter longula (Friese, 1912). Lectotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Cape Town, South Africa. Synonymy by Eardley, 1996.

Scrapter vandersteli Cockerell, 1934. Lectotype in London (BMNH). Type locality: Stellenbosch, South Africa. Synonymy by Eardley, 1996.

Scrapter subincertus Cockerell, 1944. Holotype in Type locality: Rapenburg, Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa. Synonymy by Davies & Brothers 2006.
Scrapter brunneipennis Cockerell, 1944.
Holotype in Type locality: Mossel Bay, South Africa. Synonymy by Davies & Brothers 2006.

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Recorded visiting flowers of A. calendula and Senecio sp. (Asteraceae). Most species collect pollen into an external pollen carrying apparatus (scopa).

Reference

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

Davies, G.B.P. & Brothers D.J. 2006. Morphology of Scrapter (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Colletidae), with description of three new species and taxonomic status of five Cockerell taxa. African Invertebrates 47: 135-183.
Davies, G.B.P., Eardley C.D. & Brothers D.J. 2006. Eight new species of Scrapter
(Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), with descriptions of S. albifumus and S. amplispinatus females and a major range extension of the genus. African Invertebrates 46: 141-179.

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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