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Afrotropical Colletinae

Membrane bees, Plasterer bees, Masked bees of subsaharan Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

Colletes Latreille, 1802
Scrapter Lepeletier and Serville, 1828

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Most species collect pollen into an external pollen carrying apparatus (scopa).

References

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.

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 © Laurence Packer's website: Bee Tribes of the World or

Photographs © Connal Eardley, Michael Kuhlmann, Alain Pauly 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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