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Hylaeus acariphorus Snelling

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

Hylaeus acariphorus Snelling, 1985. Holotype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality: Khami, Zimbabwe.

Classification


Holotype in SAMC. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)


Male (left) and female of red variant; specimens from Kenya, Tsavo National Park East. Scale bars = 2 mm. Photographs © Holger Dathe (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).


Distribution

Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

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

Dathe HH. 2014. Studies on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Hylaeus F. (8). Revision of the Afrotropic subgenus Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) Bridwell (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae). Zootaxa 3874 (1): 1–84.

Dathe HH. 2015. Studies on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Hylaeus F. (9)
Supplement to the taxonomy and distribution of Afrotropical Hylaeus F. species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae). Contributions to Entomology 65 (1): 9 – 26.

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.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or photographs © Holger Dathe (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).


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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