HomeWasp classificationExpeditionsLinksFigWebBiodiversity ExplorerPermits

Afrotropical Colletidae

Checklist of Membrane bees, Plasterer bees & Masked bees of subsaharan Africa and Madagascar

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

  • Subfamily Colletinae

    • Genus Colletes

      • Latreille, 1802

      • Colletes abessinicus Friese, 1915 (Ethiopia)

      • Colletes abnormis Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes albohirtus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes antecessus Cockerell, 1932 South Africa)

      • Colletes aureocinctus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes bokkeveldi Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes capensis Cameron, 1905 (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Colletes cardiurus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa))

      • Colletes cinctellus Friese, 1925 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes claripes Friese, 1925 (South Africa)

      • Colletes cyanonitidus Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes denudatus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)  

      • Colletes durbanensis Cockerell, 1919 (South Africa)

      • Colletes eardleyi Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)  

      • Colletes fasciatus Smith, 1853 (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Colletes fascicularis Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

      • Colletes faurei Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes fusconotus Cockerell, 1919 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes genalis Friese, 1909 (Namibia, South Africa)  

      • Colletes gessi Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes gorillarum Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Colletes hirtibasis Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Colletes infracognitus Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

      • Colletes inornatus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes karooensis Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes katharinae Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes knersvlaktei Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)  

      • Colletes latefasciatus Friese, 1925 (South Africa)

      • Colletes laticaudus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes latipes Friese, 1915 (Ethiopia)

      • Colletes mackieae Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

      • Colletes malleatus Cockerell, 1933 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes malmus (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)  

      • Colletes marleyi Cockerell, 1919 (South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes michaelis Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Colletes microdontus Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia)

      • Colletes missionum Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes nanellus Cockerell, 1945 (Sudan)

      • Colletes nieuwoudtvillei Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes obscurus Friese, 1925 (South Africa)

      • Colletes opacicollis Friese, 1909 (South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes opacus Friese, 1925 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes perezi Morice, 1904 (Egypt, Sudan)

      • Colletes phenax Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes plebeius Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes reginae Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes rothschildi Vachal, 1910 Kenya)

      • Colletes rubrovittatus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes ruficollis Friese, 1925 (Namibia)

      • Colletes rufitarsis Friese, 1909 (Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania)

      • Colletes rufotibialis Friese, 1909 (Namibia, South Africa)  

      • Colletes salsolae Cockerell, 1934 (Sudan)

      • Colletes schultzei Friese, 1909 (South Africa)

      • Colletes seminitens Cockerell, 1919 (South Africa)

      • Colletes somereni Cockerell, 1947 (Kenya, Uganda)

      • Colletes sordescens Cockerell, 1933 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes sorocula Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Colletes stellatus Cockerell, 1946 (South Africa)

      • Colletes testaceipes Friese, 1909 (Namibia, South Africa) 

      • Colletes tinctulus Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

      • Colletes tulbaghensis Kuhlmann, 1998 (South Africa)

      • Colletes watmoughi Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

      • Colletes zuluensis Friese, 1925 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Colletes zygophyllum Kuhlmann, 2007 (South Africa)

    • Genus Scrapter

      • Lepeletier and Serville, 1828

      • Scrapter absonus Eardley, 1996 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Scrapter acanthophorus Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter albifumus Eardley, 1996 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter albitarsis (Friese, 1909) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter algoensis (Friese, 1925) (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Scrapter amplispinatus Eardley, 1996 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter amplitarsus Eardley, 1996 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter armatipes (Friese, 1913) (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Scrapter aureiferus Cockerell, 1932 (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Scrapter avius Eardley, 1996 (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Scrapter basutorum (Cockerell, 1915) (Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa)

      • Scrapter bicolor Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter caesariatus Eardley, 1996 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter calx Eardley, 1996 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter capensis (Friese, 1909) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter carysomus Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter catoxys Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter chloris Eardley, 1996 (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Scrapter chrysomastes Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter eremanthedon Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter erubescens (Friese, 1925) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter flavipes (Friese, 1925) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter flavostictus Cockerell, 1934 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter fulginatus Eardley, 1996 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter glarea Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter heterodoxus (Cockerell, 1921) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter leonis Cockerell, 1934 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter luridus Eardley, 1996 (Namibia)

      • Scrapter niger Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter nitidus (Friese, 1909) (South Africa, Lesotho)

      • Scrapter oxyaspis Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter pallidipennis (Cockerell, 1920) (Lesotho, South Africa)

      • Scrapter pruinosus Davies, 2006 (Namibia)

      • Scrapter pyretus Davies, 2006 (Namibia)

      • Scrapter rufescens (Friese, 1912) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter ruficornis (Cockerell, 1916) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter sittybon Davies, 2005 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter striatus Smith, 1853 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter thoracicus (Friese, 1925) (South Africa)

      • Scrapter tomentum Eardley, 1996 (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Scrapter viciniger Davies, 2006 (South Africa)

      • Scrapter whiteheadi Eardley, 1996 (Namibia, South Africa)

  • Subfamily Hylaeinae

    • Genus Calloprosopis

      • Snelling, 1985

      • Calloprosopis magnifica (Cockerell, 1942) (Kenya)

    • Genus Hylaeus

      • Fabricius, 1793

      • Hylaeus aberrans (Bridwell, 1919) (Nigeria)

      • Hylaeus abyssinicus (Alfken, 1905) (Ethiopia)

      • Hylaeus abjunctus Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus absonulus Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus acariphorus Snelling, 1985 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus alfkeni (Friese, 1913) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus ameliae Cockerell, 1942 (Mozambique)

      • Hylaeus arnoldi (Friese, 1913) (Namibia, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus aterrimus (Friese, 1911) (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus atriceps (Friese, 1911) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus bequaertianus Bridwell, 1919 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria)

      • Hylaeus bevisi (Cockerell, 1917) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus binotatus (Alfken, 1914) (Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus bouyssoui (Vachal, 1900) (Gabon)

      • Hylaeus braunsi (Alfken, 1905) (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus capicola (Alfken, 1914) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus clavigerus (Cockerell 1936) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus cribratus (Bridwell, 1919) (Angola, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, Uganda)

      • Hylaeus curvicarinatus (Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus dentiferellus (Strand, 1912) (Namibia, South Africa)

      • Hylaeus dominae Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus dregei (Strand, 1912) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus extensicornis Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Hylaeus flaviscutum (Alfken, 1914) (Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus fortis Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

      • Hylaeus fumatus (Strand, 1912) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus gabonicus (Vachal, 1900) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Hylaeus gaullei (Vachal, 1900) (Gabon)

      • Hylaeus gigas (Friese, 1911) (Eritirea)

      • Hylaeus graaffi Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus haygoodi Bridwell, 1919 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus heraldicus (Smith, 1853) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus immarginatus (Alfken, 1914) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus infulatus Snelling, 1985 (Burkina Faso, Senegal)

      • Hylaeus isochromus Cockerell, 1936 (Liberia)

      • Hylaeus kasindensis Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Hylaeus krebsianus (Strand, 1912) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus lemuriae (Benoist, 1945) (Madagascar)

      • Hylaeus leucolippa (Friese, 1913) (Namibia, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus libericus (Cockerell, 1936) (Liberia)

      • Hylaeus lightfooti Bridwell, 1919 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus lineaticeps (Friese, 1913) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus luctuosus (Benoist, 1944) (Madagascar)

      • Hylaeus maculipes (Cockerell, 1936) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Hylaeus magrettii (Vachal, 1892) (Eritrea, Sudan)

      • Hylaeus mahafaly Hensen, 1987 (Madagascar)

      • Hylaeus major (Strand, 1912) (Tanzania)

      • Hylaeus malagassus (Benoist, 1945) (Madagascar)

      • Hylaeus melanosoma (Cockerell, 1920) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus microstictus Cockerell, 1942 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus montacuti (Cockerell, 1942) (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus multifarius Eardley & Urban, 2010 (Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus namaquensis Cockerell, 1942 (Namibia)

      • Hylaeus neavei Cockerell, 1942 (Kenya)

      • Hylaeus nigricans (Friese, 1913) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus nyassanus (Strand, 1912) (Tanzania)

      • Hylaeus ogilviei Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Hylaeus perater Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus perdensus Cockerell, 1936 (Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus peringueyi (Bridwell, 1919) (Nigeria)

      • Hylaeus perhumilis (Cockerell, 1914) (Australia, South Africa [introduced])

      • Hylaeus promontorii Meade–Waldo, 1923 (Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus proteae Cockerell, 1942 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus psaenythioides Snelling, 1985 (Kenya)

      • Hylaeus punctiferus Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus reditus Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus rhodesicus (Cockerell, 1942) (Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus rhodognathus Cockerell, 1936 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

      • Hylaeus robertianus (Cameron, 1906) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus rubrifacialis (Strand, 1912) (Togo)

      • Hylaeus rufipedoides (Strand, 1911) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tanzania)

      • Hylaeus rufipictus (Strand, 1912) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus rugipunctus (Alfken, 1914) (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus sansibaribia (Strand, 1912) (Tanzania)

      • Hylaeus sanctus Cockerell, 1936 (Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus scutispinus (Alfken, 1914) (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus simpsoni Cockerell, 1942 (Gambia)

      • Hylaeus simplior Meade–Waldo, 1923 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus simulans Cockerell, 1942 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus stictifrons (Cockerell, 1936) (Namibia)

      • Hylaeus subfortis (Cockerell, 1942) (Kenya)

      • Hylaeus sublucens Cockerell, 1936 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus subreditus Cockerell, 1942 (South Africa)

      • Hylaeus tenuis (Alfken, 1914) (South Africa)

      • Hyaeus tinctulus Cockerell, 1932 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

      • Hylaeus uelleburgensis (Strand, 1912) (Equatorial Guinea)

      • Hylaeus ugandicus Cockerell, 1939 (Uganda)

      • Hylaeus umtalicus (Cockerell, 1936) (Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

      • Hylaeus xanthostoma (Alfken, 1914) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa)

      • Hylaeus yoruba (Bridwell, 1919) (Nigeria)

References

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.

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Copyright 2004-2012 Iziko Museums

customisable counter