| |
Cellariella fulviventris
(Blüthgen, 1925) (South Africa)
Cellariella inexpectata
Pesenko & Pauly, 2005 (Kenya) |
 |
Cellariella kalaharica
(Cockerell, 1936) (Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia,
South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia) |
| |
Cellariella schwarzi
Pesenko & Pauly, 2005 (South Africa)
Cellariella somalica
(Magretti,
1898) (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi,
Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) |
Distribution
|
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar,
Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania,
Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
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
|
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).
|
|
