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Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville

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

Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville, 1828

Classification

 

Scrapter absonus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter acanthophorus Davies, 2005

Scrapter albifumus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter albitarsis (Friese, 1909)

Scrapter algoensis (Friese, 1925)

Scrapter amplispinatus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter amplitarsus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter armatipes (Friese, 1913)

Scrapter aureiferus Cockerell, 1932

Scrapter avius Eardley, 1996

Scrapter avontuurensis Kuhlmann, 2020 

 

Scrapter basutorum (Cockerell, 1915)

Scrapter bicolor Lepeletier & Serville, 1828

Scrapter bokkeveldensis Kuhlmann, 2020
 

Scrapter caesariatus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter calx Eardley, 1996

 

Scrapter capensis (Friese, 1909)

Scrapter carysomus Davies, 2005

Scrapter catoxys Davies, 2005

Scrapter chloris Eardley, 1996

Scrapter chrysomastes Davies, 2005

Scrapter eremanthedon Davies, 2005

Scrapter erubescens (Friese, 1925)

Scrapter flavipes (Friese, 1925)

Scrapter flavostictus Cockerell, 1934

Scrapter fuliginatus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter fynbosensis Kuhlmann, 2020 

 

Scrapter glarea Davies, 2005

Scrapter hergi Kuhlmann, 2020

Scrapter heterodoxus (Cockerell, 1921)

Scrapter keiskiensis Kuhlmann, 2020
 

Scrapter leonis Cockerell, 1934

Scrapter luridus Eardley, 1996

Scrapter mellonholgeri Kuhlmann, 2020

Scrapter niger Lepeletier & Serville, 1828

Scrapter nitens Kuhlmann, 2020 

Scrapter nitidus (Friese, 1909)

Scrapter opacus (Friese, 1909)

Scrapter oubergensis Kuhlmann, 2020

 

Scrapter oxyaspis Davies, 2005

 

Scrapter pallidipennis (Cockerell, 1920)

Scrapter pruinosus Davies, 2006

Scrapter pyretus Davies, 2006

Scrapter rufescens (Friese, 1912)

Scrapter ruficornis (Cockerell, 1916)

Scrapter sittybon Davies, 2005

Scrapter sphecodoides Friese, 1912
 

Scrapter striatus Smith, 1853

Scrapter thoracicus (Friese, 1925)

Scrapter tomentum Eardley, 1996

Scrapter viciniger Davies, 2006

Scrapter whiteheadi Eardley, 1996

Scrapter willemstrydomi Kuhlmann, 2020

Distribution

Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Endemic to southern Africa.

Biology

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.

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. XXV. Descriptions and records of bees.XC. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (ser. 9) 7: 201–212.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. XXXV. Descriptions and records of bees.—XCI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (ser. 9) 8: 359–368.

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.

Eardley C.,Kuhlmann M., Pauly A. 2010. The Bee Genera and Subgenera of sub-Saharan Africa. Abc Taxa vol 7: i-vi, 138 pp.

Kuhlmann, M. & Friehs T. 2020. Nine new species and new records of euryglossiform Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from South Africa. European Journal of Taxonomy 647: 1-33. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.647

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), or © Laurence Packer's website: Bee Tribes of the World, or © Connal Eardley first published in Eardley et al. 2010.

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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