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Meganomia Cockerell

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

Meganomia Cockerell, 1909

Classification

  Meganomia andersoni (Meade-Waldo, 1916) (Kenya, Tanzania)
Meganomia binghami (Cockerell, 1909) (Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe)
  Meganomia gigas Michener, 1981 (Namibia).
  Meganomia rossi Michener, 1981 (Kenya)
Meganomia species (Namibia)

Distribution

Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Pollen collecting bees that nest in the ground often in large densities.

References

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.

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

Rozen, J.G. 1977. Biology and immature stages of the bee genus Meganomia (Hymenoptera, Melittidae). American Museum Novitates No. 2630, 1–14.

Stage, G.I. 1971. Family placement of the African genus Meganomia Cockerell with a review of the included species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 73, 306–313.

Credits

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


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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