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Calloprosopis Snelling

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

Calloprosopis Snelling, 1985

Classification

Calloprosopis magnifica (Cockerell, 1942)

Distribution

Endemic to high altitudes in Kenya.

Biology

Most species provision the nest with liquid or semi-liquid pollen that has been carried in the crop rather than being collected into an external pollen carrying apparatus (scopa) that these bees lack.

References

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

Cockerell TDA. 1942. Bees of the family Hylaeidae from the Ethiopian Region. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 101: 1–15.

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.

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

Snelling, R.R. 1985. The systematics of the hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera:
Colletidae) of the Ethiopian zoogeographical region: The genera and subgenera
with revisions of the smaller groups. Contributions in Science, Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County
361: 1-33.

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