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Scrapter nitidus (Friese)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family: Colletidae;
Subfamily: Colletinae; Genus:
Scrapter)
Polyglossa
nitida
Friese, 1909. Holotype
in Berlin (ZMHB). Type locality: South Africa.
Strandiella sphecodoides Friese, 1912. Lectotype in
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC).
Type locality: South Africa.
Strandiella fuscipennis Friese, 1912. Lectotype
in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa.
Scrapter semirufa Cockerell, 1932. Lectotype
in London (NHMUK). Type locality: South Africa.
Synonymy by Eardley, 1996.
Scrapter perpunctata Cockerell, 1933.
Holotype
in London (NHMUK). Type locality: South Africa. Synonymy by Eardley, 1996.
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Female in SANC.
Photograph © Connal Eardley, Michael Kuhlmann, Alain Pauly first published in Eardley et al. 2010.
Male in SANC.
Photograph © Connal Eardley, Michael Kuhlmann, Alain Pauly first published in Eardley et al. 2010.
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Distribution
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Lesotho, South Africa. |
Biology
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Collect pollen into an external pollen carrying apparatus (scopa),
recorded visiting flowers of: Chrysocoma cf. cotula,
Chrysocoma strigosa, Chrysocoma sp., Dimorphotheca sinuta,
Euryops thunbergii, Helichrysum rugulosum, Senecio
cardaminifolius, Senecio sp., Zygophyllum sp. (Eardley
& Urban, 2010) |
Reference
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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
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Photographs © Connal Eardley, Michael Kuhlmann, Alain Pauly first published in Eardley et al. 2010.
Map illustration ©
Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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