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Andrena Fabricius

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

Andrena Fabricius, 1775

Classification

 

Andrena africana Friese, 1909

Andrena argentata Smith, 1844

Andrena bonnefoiensis Strand, 1921

Andrena collaris Lepeletier, 184

Andrena dorsalis Brulle, 1832

Andrena holomelana Illiger, 1806

Andrena notophila Cockerell, 1933

 

Andrena saegeri Cockerell, 1939

Andrena somalica Friese, 1915

Andrena thomensis Cockerell, 1932

Distribution

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, São Tomé, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania.

Biology

Provision their nest with pollen and nectar, nest in burrows in the soil.

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.

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 © 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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