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Nomia Latreille

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

Nomia Latreille, 1804.

Classification

 

Nomia amabilis Cockerell, 1908 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Nomia alluaudi (Pauly, 2000) (Kenya, Tanzania)

Nomia ampla Walker, 1871 (Djibouti)

Nomia ampliata Vachal, 1903 (Tanzania)

Nomia antecedens Cockerell, 1931 (Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Niger, Sudan)

 

Nomia apicalis Friese, 1941 (South Africa)

Nomia atripes (Friese, 1909) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)

 

Nomia bicoloripes Walker, 1871 (Somalia)

Nomia bongo (Pauly, 2000) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon)

Nomia bouyssoui Vachal, 1903 (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Uganda)

 

Nomia brevipes Friese, 1914 (South Africa)

Nomia brothersi (Pauly, 2000) (Namibia, South Africa)

 

Nomia calida Westwood, 1875 (Gambia, Mozambique, Tanzania)

Nomia camerunensis (Pauly, 1990) (Cameroon)

Nomia candida Smith, 1875 (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Nomia chandleri (Ashmead, 1899) (Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia)

 

Nomia cincticauda Cockerell, 1943 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa)

Nomia clavicauda Cockerell, 1947 (Uganda)

Nomia clypeonitida (Pauly, 2000) (Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria)

Nomia crocisaeformis Bingham, 1903 (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, Senegal, Togo)

Nomia cuneata Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

 

Nomia dayi (Pauly, 1997) (Madagascar)

Nomia eburneifrons Walker, 1871 (Djibouti)

Nomia elephas Strand, 1911 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia)

Nomia epileuca Cockerell, 1939 (Namibia)

Nomia ethiopica (Pauly, 2000) (Ethiopia)

 

Nomia felina Cockerell, 1947 (South Africa)

Nomia ferruginipennis Cockerell, 1947 (South Africa)

Nomia ferruginipes Cockerell, 1947 (Malawi)

Nomia forbesii (Kirby, 1900) (Kenya, Sudan, Yemen)

 

Nomia garambensis (Pauly, 2000) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Nomia gorytoides Strand, 1911 (Madagascar)

Nomia granulata Vachal, 1903 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Nomia ivoirensis (Pauly, 1990) (Ivory Coast, Nigeria)

 

Nomia kinduna Strand, 1921 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

 

Nomia laevidorsata Benoist, 1962 (Madagascar)

Nomia lamottei Benoist, 1957 (Guinea)

Nomia lubumbashica Cockerell, 1943 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Nomia lutea (Warncke, 1976) (Cameroon, Mali, Niger, Sudan)

 

Nomia maculata Friese, 1904 (Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia)

Nomia marana Cockerell, 1941 (Kenya)

Nomia marginata (Pauly, 1990) (Mozambique, South Africa)

Nomia medionitens Cockerell, 1947 (South Africa)

Nomia microlutea (Pauly, 2000) (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Nigeria)

Nomia mlanjensis (Pauly, 2000) (Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe)

Nomia montana Friese, 1941 (South Africa)

Nomia montivaga Friese, 1941 (South Africa)

 

Nomia nigrociliata Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe)

Nomia nilssoni (Pauly, 1991) (Madagascar)

Nomia politula Cockerell, 1943 (Malawi)

Nomia polytricha Cockerell, 1944 (Kenya)

Nomia postscutellaris Strand, 1914 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Nomia pretoriensis Cockerell, 1947 (South Africa)

Nomia pulawskii (Pauly, 1997) (Madagascar)

 

Nomia quadrispinosa Friese, 1930 (Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Nomia quadrituberculata (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

 

Nomia ranavalona (Pauly, 1990) (Madagascar)

Nomia rozeni (Pauly, 2000) (Namibia)

Nomia rufitarsis Smith, 1875 (Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Nomia rufosuffusa Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Nomia scitula Bingham, 1903 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

 

Nomia scutellaris Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Nomia senticosa Vachal, 1897 (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo)

Nomia seyrigi Benoist, 1964 (Madagascar)

Nomia somalica Friese, 1908 (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Zambia)

Nomia spinosipes Cockerell, 1947 (Zambia)

Nomia stageri (Pauly, 2000) (Kenya)

Nomia starkei (Pauly, 2000) (South Africa)

 

Nomia theryi Gribodo, 1894 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)

Nomia tibiaplumosa (Pauly, 2000) (Tanzania)

Nomia trichonota Cockerell, 1939 (Namibia)

 

Nomia vassei (Pauly, 2000) (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania)

Nomia viridicincta Meade-Waldo, 1916 (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda)

 

Nomia viridilimbata Saussure, 1891 (Comores, Madagascar)

 

Nomia whiteana (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Nomia zonaria Walker, 1871 (Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo)

 

Nomia zualula Strand, 1912 (Tanzania)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Solitary or eusocial with most nesting in the ground, some nest in wood.  Mass-provision individual cells with pollen and nectar, which are then sealed after a single egg is laid on the provision.

Reference

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

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 © 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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