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Afrotropical Hylaeinae

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)

Classification

Calloprosopis Snelling, 1985

Hylaeus Fabricius, 1793

Distribution

Worldwide with greatest diversity in the Australasian region.

Biology

Most species provision the nest with liquid or semi-liquid pollen that has been carried in the crop rather than being collected into an external pollen carrying apparatus (scopa) that these bees lack.

References

Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.

Cockerell TDA. 1942. Bees of the family Hylaeidae from the Ethiopian Region. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 101: 1–15.

Dathe HH. 2014. Studies on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Hylaeus F. (8). Revision of the Afrotropic subgenus Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) Bridwell (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae). Zootaxa 3874 (1): 1–84.

Dathe HH. 2015. Studies on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Hylaeus F. (9)
Supplement to the taxonomy and distribution of Afrotropical Hylaeus F. species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae). Contributions to Entomology 65 (1): 9 – 26.

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.

Snelling, R.R. 1985. The systematics of the hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera:
Colletidae) of the Ethiopian zoogeographical region: The genera and subgenera
with revisions of the smaller groups. Contributions in Science, Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County
361: 1-33.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or

Photographs © Connal Eardley, Michael Kuhlmann, Alain Pauly first published in Eardley et al. 2010.


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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