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Ceratina Latreille

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Apidae; Subfamily: Xylocopinae; Tribe: Ceratini)

Ceratina Latreille, 1802.

Ceratina species
 

Ceratina aereola Vachal, 1903 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Zambia)

Ceratina albopicta Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina aliceae Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Ceratina allodapoides Strand, 1912 (Guinea)

Ceratina aloes Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

Ceratina armata Smith, 1854 (South Africa)

Ceratina atopura Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina azurea Benoist, 1955 (Madagascar)

Ceratina ballotae Eardley & Daly, 2007 (South Africa)

Ceratina barbarae Eardley & Daly, 2007 (South Africa)

Ceratina bilobata Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia)

Ceratina braunsi Eardley & Daly, 2007 (South Africa)

Ceratina citrinifrons Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Ceratina citriphila Cockerell, 1935 (Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan)

Ceratina congoensis Meunier, 1890 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia)

Ceratina daressalamica Strand, 1912 (Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania)

Ceratina diloloensis Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda)

Ceratina electron Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Ceratina elisabethae Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina ericia Vachal, 1903 (Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia)

Ceratina excavata Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania)

Ceratina fastigata Fox, 1896 (Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan)

Ceratina foveifera Strand, 1912 (Cameroon)

Ceratina furcilinea Strand, 1912 (Tanzania)

Ceratina gnoma Eardley & Daly, 2007 (Namibia)

Ceratina guineae Strand, 1912 (Guinea)

Ceratina guineana Strand, 1912 (Guinea)

Ceratina hexae Eardley & Daly, 2007 (South Africa)

Ceratina inermis Friese, 1905 (Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina labrosa Friese, 1905 (South Africa)

Ceratina langenburgiae Strand, 1912 (Tanzania)

Ceratina langi Cockerell, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina lativentris (Friese, 1905) (Madagascar, Namibia, Tanzania)

Ceratina levisulcata Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina liberica Cockerell, 1937 (Liberia)

Ceratina liliputana Cockerell, 1932 (Namibia, South Africa)

Ceratina lineola Vachal, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina loa Strand, 1912 (Guinea)

Ceratina lucifera Cockerell, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina ludwigsi Strand, 1914 (Cameroon)

Ceratina lunata Friese, 1905 (Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina macrospila Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia)

Ceratina madecassa Friese, 1901 (Madagascar, Seychelles)

Ceratina malindiae (Daly, 1988) (Kenya)

Ceratina minuta Friese, 1905 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina moerenhouti Vachal, 1903 (Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina namibensis Eardley & Daly, 2007 (Namibia)

Ceratina nasalis Friese, 1905 (Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania)

Ceratina nasiinsignita Strand, 1912 (Guinea)

Ceratina nativitatis Cockerell, 1937 (Zimbabwe)

Ceratina nigriceps Friese, 1905 (Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina nilotica Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

Ceratina nilotica maculipes Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina nilotica miranda Cockerell, 1937 (Uganda)

Ceratina nitidella Cockerell, 1937 (Liberia)

Ceratina nyassensis Strand, 1912 (Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina opaca Friese, 1905 (South Africa, Tanzania)

Ceratina pacis Cockerell, 1937 (Zimbabwe)

Ceratina pallidipes Cockerell, 1937 (Mozambique)

Ceratina paulyi (Daly, 1988) (Burkina Faso, Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal)

Ceratina pembana Cockerell, 1935 (Tanzania)

Ceratina pennicillata Friese, 1905 (Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina penicilligera Strand, 1912 (Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania)

Ceratina perpolita Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Ceratina personata Friese, 1905 (Nigeria)

Ceratina politifrons Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina rhodura Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Ceratina roseoviridis Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya, Uganda)

Ceratina rossi (Daly, 1988) (Angola)

Ceratina rothschildiana Vachal, 1909 (Uganda)

Ceratina rufigastra Cockerell, 1937 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina rugosissima Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina ruwenzorica Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya, Uganda)

Ceratina samburuensis Cockerell, 1910 (Kenya)

Ceratina sculpturata Smith, 1854 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda)

Ceratina senegalensis Strand, 1912 (Senegal)

Ceratina speculifrons Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa)

Ceratina speculina Cockerell, 1937 (Sierra Leone)

Ceratina spilota Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina stuckenbergi Eardley & Daly, 2007 (South Africa)

Ceratina subquadrata Smith, 1854 (Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Ceratina subscintilla Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Ceratina tabescens Cockerell, 1912 (Seychelles)

Ceratina taborae Strand, 1912 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina tanganyicensis Strand, 1911 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania)

Ceratina tarsata Morawitz, 1872 (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan) Also Palaearctic region)

Ceratina tenkeana Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina truncata Friese, 1905 (South Africa)

Ceratina viridifrons Cockerell, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Ceratina viridis Gučrin, 1845 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan)

Ceratina whiteheadi Eardley & Daly, 2007 (Namibia, South Africa)

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Biology

As with Xylocopa, they separate their cells with partitions made of wood shavings, and are all pollen collecting bees (Eardley et al., 2010).

References

Eardley, C & Urban, R. 2010. Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes). Zootaxa 2455: 1-548.

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 © Dave West (Randburg).


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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