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Megachile Latreille

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Megachilidae; Subfamily: Megachilinae; Tribe: Megachilini)

Classification

Megachile Latreille, 1802.

Megachile abessinica Friese, 1915 (Ethiopia)

 

Megachile abnegatula Cockerell (Mozambique)

Megachile abongana Strand, 1911 (Cameroun, Malawi)

Megachile acanthura Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile accraensis Friese, 1903 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania)

Megachile aculeata Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

 

Megachile addita Pasteels, 1965 (Zambia)

Megachile adeloptera Schletterer, 1891 (Cameroun, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa)

 

Megachile admixta Cockerell, 1931 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia)

Megachile aduaensis Friese, 19019 (Ethiopia, Somalia)

Megachile afra Pasteels, 1965 (Mozambique)

Megachile africanibia Strand, 1912 (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Nigeria)

Megachile akamiella Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile albicaudella Pasteels, 1965 (Zambia)

Megachile albiscopa Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Megachile albocincta Radoszkowski, 1874 (Ethiopia, Senegal, Sudan)

Megachile albofilosa Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile albohirsuta Pasteels, 1965 (South Africa)

Megachile albonigra Pasteels, 1973 (Senegal)

Megachile albopilosa Friese, 1916 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile aliceae Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

Megachile altera Vachal, 1903 (Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile alternans Friese, 1922 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile amabilis Cockerell, 1933 (Sudan)

Megachile ambigua (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile amoena (Pasteels, 1965) (Ethiopia)

Megachile angolensis (Cockerell, 1935) (Angola)

Megachile angulata Smith, 1853 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile anomomaculata (Pasteels, 1965) (Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile antinorii Gribodo, 1879 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, Tanzania)

Megachile apiformis Smith, 1853 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile apostolica Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile arabica Friese, 1901 (Somalia, Palaearctic)

Megachile aridissima Cockerell, 1937 (Ethiopia, South Africa)

Megachile armatipes Friese, 1909 (Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile armipygata Strand, 1911 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Senegal)

Megachile arnoldiella (Pasteels, 1965) (Tanzania)

Megachile asarna Cockerell, 1937 (Malawi, South Africa)

Megachile astridella Pasteels, 1965 (Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa)

Megachile atopognatha Cockerell, 1933 (Malawi, Zimbabwe)

Megachile atripes Friese, 1904 (South Africa)

Megachile atroalbida Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

Megachile attenuata Vachal, 1910 (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile aurifacies Pasteels, 1985 (Angola)

Megachile aurifera Cockerell, 1935 (Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, Zimbabwe)

Megachile aurilabris Pasteels, 1965 (Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile aurivilli Friese, 1901 (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon)

Megachile aurulenta (Pasteels, 1970) (South Africa)

Megachile azarica Cockerell, 1945 (Nigeria)

Megachile bangana Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia)

Megachile barbata Smith, 1853 (Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia)

Megachile barkeri Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa)

Megachile basalis Smith, 1853 (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

 

Megachile basirubella Pasteels, 1973 (Senegal)

Megachile battorensis Meade–Waldo, 1912 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Uganda)

Megachile benitocola Strand, 1912 (Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa)

Megachile bicornuta Friese, 1903 (Niger, Senegal, Sudan)

Megachile biexcisa (Pasteels, 1970) (South Africa)

Megachile biloba Vachal, 1910 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile bilobata Friese, 1915 (Ethiopia, Kenya)

Megachile bipunctulata (Pasteels, 1965) (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile biseta Vachal, 1903 (Cameroun, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Zambia)

Megachile biseta biseta (Pasteels, 1965) (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia)

Megachile biseta australis (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia)

Megachile bituberculata Ritsema, 1880 (Angola, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile bituberculata rubripedana Strand, 1914 (Angola)

Megachile bombiformis Gerstaecker, 1894 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile bombiformis bombiformis (Gerstaecker, 1909) (Mozambique

Megachile bombiformis yapiensis (Cockerell, 1935) (Nigeria)

Megachile boswendica Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe)

Megachile bredoi Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile brochidens Vachal, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Nigeria)

Megachile brooksi Pauly, 2001 (Madagascar)

Megachile brunissima (Pasteels, 1965) (Ethiopia)

Megachile bucephala (Fabricius, 1793) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile bukamensis Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile bullata Friese, 1911 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile burungana Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile candidicauda Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

Megachile candidigena Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

Megachile capitata Smith, 1853 (Gambia, Tanzania)

Megachile capiticola Cockerell, 1938 (South Africa)

Megachile caricina Cockerell, 1907 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda)

Megachile catulus (Cockerell, 1910) (Kenya)

Megachile cestifera Benoist, 1955 (Madagascar)

Megachile chapini (Cockerell, 1935) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile chelostomoides Gribodo, 1894 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia)

Megachile chromatica Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

Megachile chrysognatha Cockerell, 1943 (Namibia)

Megachile chrysopogon Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia)

Megachile chrysorrhoea Gerstaecker, 1858 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile cincta (Fabricius, 1781) (Angola, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Palaearctic)

Megachile cincta cincta (Fabricius, 1793) (Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone)

Megachile cincta combusta (Smith, 1853) (South Africa)

Megachile cincta nigrocincta (Ritsema, 1874) (Guinea, Mozambique)

Megachile cincta tricolor Friese, 1903 (Cameroun, Sierra Leone)

Megachile guineensis cerenensis Friese, 1926 (Eritrea)

Megachile cinctiventris Friese, 1916 (Namibia)

Megachile clypeosinuata Pasteels, 1985 (South Africa)

Megachile coelostoma Cockerell, 1932 (South Africa)

Megachile cognata Smith, 1853 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia)

Megachile cognata claripennis Friese, 1915 (Tanzania)

Megachile cognatiforme (Pasteels, 1970) (Senegal)

Megachile colorata Fox, 1896 (Somalia)

Megachile combinata (Pasteels, 1965) (Kenya)

Megachile commixta (Pasteels, 1970) (Ethiopia)

Megachile congruens Friese, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile concinna Smith, 1879 (Chad, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Neotropical)

Megachile coniformis Friese, 1922 (Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile conradsi Friese, 1911 (Tanzania)

Megachile cordata Smith, 1879 (Malawi, South Africa)

Megachile cornigera Friese, 1904 (South Africa)

Megachile cradockensis Friese, 1909 (Ivory Coast, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa)

Megachile cradockensis occidentalis (Pasteels, 1970) (Ivory Coast, Senegal)

Megachile crassitarsis Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania)

Megachile crenulata Fox, 1896 (Somalia)

Megachile cupreohirta Cockerell, 1933 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile curtula Gerstaecker, 1858 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Megachile curtuloides Pasteels, 1973 (Cameroun)

Megachile cyanipennis Guérin–Méneville, 1844 (Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan)

Megachile dariensis Pasteels, 1965 (Malawi, Tanzania)

Megachile dawensis (Pasteels, 1965) (Ethiopia)

Megachile decemsignata Radoszkowski, 1881 (Angola, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Megachile delphinensis Benoist, 1962 (Madagascar)

Megachile demeter Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile derasa Gerstaecker, 1869 (Sudan, Palaearctic)

Megachile derelictula Cockerell, 1937 (Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal)

Megachile devexa Vachal, 1903 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Africa, Gabon)

Megachile digiticauda Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria)

Megachile discolor Smith, 1853 (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

 

Megachile discretula Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa)

Megachile disjuncta (Fabricius, 1781) (Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, Tanzania, Oriental, Palaearctic)

Megachile dolichognatha Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Uganda)

Megachile dolichosoma Benoist, 1962 (Madagascar)

Megachile dorsata Smith, 1853 (Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile duala Strand, 1914 (Cameroun)

Megachile edentata Friese, 1925 (Zimbabwe)

Megachile edwardsi Friese, 1922 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile edwardsiana Friese, 1925 (South Africa)

Megachile ekuivella Cockerell, 1909 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile empeyi (Pasteels, 1970) (South Africa)

Megachile epixanthula Cockerell, 1931 (Kenya)

Megachile erythrura (Pasteels, 1970) (Malawi)

Megachile eupyrrha Cockerell, 1937 (Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda)

Megachile eurymera Smith, 1853 (Botswana, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Megachile excavata Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe)

Megachile exsecta Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile familiaris Cockerell, 1916 (South Africa)

Megachile fastigiata Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe)

Megachile feijeni Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Megachile felina Gerstaecker, 1858 (Angola, Botswana, Comores, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile fervida (Smith, 1853) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile filicornis Friese, 1908 (Mozambique, Tanzania)

Megachile fimbriata Smith, 1853 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Zimbabwe)

Megachile fimbriata sanguinea Friese, 1911 (Senegal, Togo)

Megachile fimbriata vulpecula Pasteels, 1973 (Kenya)

Megachile flammicauda Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile flavibasis Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa)

Megachile flavipennis Smith, 1853 ("Africa", South Africa)

Megachile flavipes Spinola, 1839 (Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Palaearctic)

Megachile flavipes meridionalis (Pasteels, 1970) (Mali, Mauritania, Niger)

Megachile formosa (Pasteels, 1970) (Kenya)

Megachile fuliginosa Friese, 1925 (South Africa)

Megachile fulva Smith, 1853 ("Africa", Namibia, South Africa, Uganda)

Megachile fulva nigrocaudata (Pasteels, 1970) (Uganda)

Megachile fulvitarsis Friese, 1909 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile fulvohirta Friese, 1904 (South Africa)

Megachile funebris Radoszkowski, 1874 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia)

Megachile fuscicauda Cockerell, 1933 (Angola)

Megachile galactogagates Gribodo, 1894 (Ethiopia)

Megachile gambiensis Cockerell, 1973 (Gambia)

Megachile garambana Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia)

Megachile gastracantha Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile gathela Cameron, 1908 (Sudan, Oriental)

Megachile geoffrei Cockerell, 1919 (Gambia, Nigeria)

Megachile gessi Eardley, 2012 (Namibia)

Megachile gessorum Eardley, 2012 (Namibia)

Megachile gibbidens Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile globiceps (Pasteels, 1970) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

Megachile gobabebensis Eardley, 2013 (Namibia)

Megachile goegabensis Eardley, 2013 (South Africa)

Megachile gordoni Cockerell, 1937 (Sudan)

Megachile gowdeyi Cockerell, 1931 (Ethiopia, Uganda)

Megachile granulicauda Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile gratiosa Gerstaecker, 1858 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Megachile gratiosa marusa Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

Megachile gratiosella Cockerell, 1935 (Botswana, South Africa)

Megachile griseola Cockerell, 1931 (Kenya)

Megachile guineae Strand, 1912 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea)

Megachile haematognatha Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile harrarensis Friese, 1915 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda)

Megachile harthulura Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile hecate Vachal, 1903 (Tanzania)

Megachile heinii Kohl, 1906 (Ethiopia)

Megachile hemirhodura Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya)

Megachile heptadonta Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile heteroscopa Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile heterotricha Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa)

Megachile hirsutula Pasteels, 1973 (Cameroun, Senegal)

Megachile hirticauda Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya, Uganda)

Megachile holostoma Cockerell, 1937 (Malawi)

Megachile hopilitis Vachal, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile horrida Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Megachile hypopyrrha Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile ianthoptera Smith, 1853 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile ianthoptera consanguinea Smith, 1879 (Lesotho, South Africa)

Megachile consanguinea zamelaena Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile ikuthaensis Friese, 1903 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Megachile imitata Smith, 1853 (South Africa)

Megachile imperialis Friese, 1903 (Tanzania)

Megachile inexpectata Pasteels, 1973 (Malawi)

Megachile insolita (Pasteels, 1965) (Namibia)

Megachile invenita (Pasteels, 1965) (Tanzania)

Megachile ituriana Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile ituriella Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia)

Megachile janthopteriana Strand, 1911 (Tanzania)

Megachile japoma Strand, 1911 (Cameroun)

Megachile johannis (Pasteels, 1965) (South Africa)

Megachile johannis fulvosetosa) (Pasteels, 1985) (South Africa)

Megachile junodi Friese, 1904 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile kamerunensis Friese, 1922 (Cameroun, Zimbabwe)

Megachile kamerunensis totafusca (Pasteels, 1965) (Zimbabwe)

Megachile karooensis (Brauns, 1912) (South Africa)

Megachile kasiana (Pasteels, 1965) (Ethiopia)

Megachile katonana Strand, 1911 (Tanzania)

Megachile kelnerae Pasteels, 1978 (Congo)

Megachile khamana Cockerell, 1938 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, South Africa)

Megachile kigonserana Friese, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile kimilolana Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania)

Megachile konowiana Friese, 1903 (Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile konowiana albitarsata Friese, 1909 (Kenya)

Megachile krebsiana Strand, 1911 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile laminata Friese, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile lanata (Fabricius, 1804) (Ethiopia, Madagascar, Réunion, Oriental

Megachile laticeps Smith, 1853 (Seychelles)

Megachile latimetatarsis Strand, 1911 (Botswana, Cameroun, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Togo)

Megachile leonum (Cockerell, 1930) (Kenya)

Megachile leucopsis Schletterer, 1891 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile leucospila Cockerell, 1933 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa)

Megachile leucospilura Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile lineatula Cockerell, 1937 (Zambia)

Megachile lineofasciata (Pasteels, 1965) (South Africa)

Megachile louisae Brauns, 1926 (South Africa)

Megachile luangwae Meade–Waldo, 1912 (Malawi, Zambia)

Megachile luteicornis Pasteels, 1973 (Senegal)

Megachile luteoalba Pasteels, 1973 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile luteociliata Pasteels, 1965 (Kenya)

Megachile luteohirta Pasteels, 1973 (Malawi)

Megachile luteola Pasteels, 1965 (Malawi, South Africa)

Megachile lutescens Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi)

Megachile lydenburgiana Strand, 1911 (South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile mabirensis Cockerell, 1937 (Uganda)

Megachile mackieae Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile maculosella Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile magadiensis Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya)

Megachile magadiensis hamiltoni Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya)

Megachile malangensis Friese, 1904 (Angola, Lesotho)

Megachile malangensis mamalapia Pasteels, 1965 (Lesotho)

Megachile malimbana Strand, 1911 (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria)

Megachile manguna Strand, 1911 (Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo)

Megachile manyara Eardley & Urban, 2006 (Kenya, Tanzania)

Megachile marshalli Friese, 1904 (Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile masaiella Cockerell, 1930 (Chad, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan)

Megachile mastrucatella Strand, 1911 (East Africa)

Megachile maxillosa Guérin–Méneville, 1844 (Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe)

Megachile meadewaldoi Brauns, 1912 (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile mediana (Pasteels, 1965) ("Afrique occidentale française")

Megachile mediorufa Cockerell, 1930 (Sudan)

Megachile meesi Pasteels, 1966 (Zimbabwe)

Megachile melanops Cockerell, 1937 (Ethiopia)

Megachile melanura Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile meneliki Friese, 1915 (Ethiopia)

Megachile mephistophelica Gribodo, 1894 (Cameroun, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan)

Megachile meruensis Friese, 1909 (Tanzania)

Megachile michaelis Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi)

Megachile mimetica Cockerell, 1933 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Zambia)

Megachile mimeticana Eardley & Urban, 2006 (Nigeria)

Megachile minutissima Radoszkowski, 1874 (Ethiopia)

Megachile mixtura Eardley & Urban, 2006 (Senegal, Sudan)

Megachile mlanjensis Meade–Waldo, 1913 (Malawi)

Megachile mlunguziensis Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Megachile modestissima Dalla Torre, 1896 (Sudan)

Megachile montibia Strand, 1911 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile morsitans Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Megachile mossambica Gribodo, 1895 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, South Africa)

Megachile muansae Friese, 1911 (Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Megachile multidens Fox, 1891 (Democratic Republic of the Congo [introduced], Nearctic)

Megachile murina Friese, 1913 (South Africa)

Megachile musculus Friese, 1913 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile mutala Strand, 1912 (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia)

Megachile mystacea (Fabricius, 1775) (Mauritius, Seychelles, Oriental)

Megachile namibensis Eardley, 2012 (Namibia)

Megachile nasalis Smith, 1879 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile nasalis ventrifasciata Strand, 1911 (Namibia)

Megachile nasicornis Friese, 1903 (South Africa)

 

Megachile nasutula (Brauns, 1912) (South Africa)

Megachile natalica Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa)

Megachile natansiella Cockerell, 1944 (Botswana)

Megachile neavei Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Tanzania,

Megachile neli Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile nigeriensis Cockerell, 1937 (Nigeria)

Megachile nigra Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Megachile nigrimanus Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Megachile nigripollex Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi)

Megachile nigroaurea Pasteels, 1965 (Malawi, Uganda)

Megachile nigrocaudata Friese, 1903 (Kenya)

Megachile nigrorufa Pasteels, 1973 (Senegal)

Megachile niveicauda Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile niveofasciata Friese, 1904 (South Africa)

Megachile obesa Pasteels, 1965 (South Africa)

Megachile opaculina Cockerell, 1937 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan)

Megachile ornaticoxis Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile ornithica Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile ovatomaculata Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe)

Megachile pachyceps Friese, 1922 (South Africa)

Megachile pallida Radoszkowski, 1881 (Angola, South Africa)

Megachile pallorea Vachal, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile panda Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile parabukamensis (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile paracantha (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile parancinnula Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Zimbabwe)

Megachile patellimana Spinola, 1839 (Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan)

Megachile pauliani Benoist, 1950 (Madagascar)

Megachile paupera Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile perfimbriata Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile perniciosa Friese, 1903 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile persimilis Cockerell, 1937 (Tanzania)

Megachile pillaultae Pasteels, 1978 (Congo)

Megachile piliceps Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Megachile pilosella Friese, 1922 (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile pinguicula Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile pinguiventris Pasteels, 1965 (Zambia)

Megachile planatipes Cockerell, 1933 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Lesotho, Zambia)

Megachile platystoma Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal)

Megachile polychroma Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)

Megachile pondonis Cockerell, 1944 (Mozambique, South Africa)

Megachile postnigra Cockerell, 1937 (Uganda)

Megachile praetexta Vachal, 1910 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia)

Megachile pretoriaensis Pasteels, 1965 (South Africa)

Megachile pseudocincta (Pasteels, 1970) (Liberia)

Megachile pseudofulva (Pasteels, 1965) (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile pseudolaminata Pasteels, 1965 (Tanzania)

Megachile pseudotaraxis Eardley, 2012 (South Africa)

Megachile pulchrifrons Cockerell, 1933 (Angola)

Megachile pulvinata Vachal, 1910 (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia)

Megachile punctolineata Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile punctomarginata Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Megachile pycnocephala Pasteels, 1966 (Zimbabwe)

Megachile pyrrhothorax Schletterer, 1891 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile quadraticauda (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile reicherti Brauns, 1929 (South Africa)

Megachile regina Friese, 1903 (Mozambique, Zambia)

Megachile rhodesica Cockerell, 1920 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile rhodoleucura Cockerell, 1937 (Zimbabwe)

Megachile richtersveldensis Eardley, 2012 (South Africa)

Megachile riggenbachiana Strand, 1911 (Botswana, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Tanzania)

Megachile riomii (Pasteels, 1970) (Senegal)

Megachile robertiana Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

Megachile rosarum Cockerell, 1931 (Kenya)

Megachile rozenii Pasteels, 1976 (South Africa)

Megachile rubeola Pasteels, 1965 (South Africa)

Megachile rubrigena (Pasteels, 1965) (Nigeria)

Megachile rubrociliata Pasteels, 1965 (South Africa)

Megachile ruda (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile rudihirta Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile rufa Friese, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia)

Megachile ruficheloides Strand, 1911 (Tanzania)

Megachile rufigaster Cockerell, 1945 (Ethiopia, Tanzania)

Megachile rufiscopa Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Megachile rufisetosa Pasteels, 1976 (South Africa)

Megachile rufipennis (Fabricius, 1793) (Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania. Also Neotropical region)

 

Megachile rufipes (Fabricius, 1781) (Cameroun, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Réunion, Rodriguez, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda)

Megachile rufiscopa Saussure, 1891 (Comores, Madagascar)

Megachile rufiventris Guérin–Méneville, 1834 (Comoro Islands, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile rufohirtula Cockerell, 1937 (Malawi, Tanzania)

Megachile rufoscopacaea Friese, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile rufosuffusa Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia)

Megachile rufulina Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile saba Strand, 1914 (Cameroun)

Megachile saganeitana Gribodo, 1894 (Eritrea)

Megachile salsburyana Friese, 1922 (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile sarahae Eardley, 2012 (Namibia)

Megachile schulthessi Friese, 1903 (South Africa)

Megachile scindularia du Buysson, 1903 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile seclusa Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile seewaldi Strand, 1911 (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Megachile selenostoma Cockerell, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya)

Megachile semibarbata Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile semicognata Cockerell, 1937 (Malawi, Zambia)

Megachile semierma Vachal, 1903 (Cameroun, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda)

Megachile semiflava Cockerell, 1937 (Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile semifulva Friese, 1922 (South Africa)

Megachile semivestita (Smith, 1853) (Tanzania, Oriental)

Megachile senex Smith, 1853 (South Africa)

Megachile septentrionella Pasteels, 1965 (Ethiopia, Ghana, Sudan)

Megachile serraticauda Cockerell, 1938 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile serrigera Cockerell, 1937 (Ethiopia)

Megachile seychellensis Cameron, 1907 (Aldabra, Madagascar, Seychelles)

Megachile sheppardi (Pasteels, 1965) (Zimbabwe)

Megachile sikorae Friese, 1901 (Madagascar)

Megachile silverlocki Meade–Waldo, 1913 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia)

Megachile silverlocki septentrionalis (Pasteels, 1965) (Somalia)

Megachile simonyi Friese, 1903 (Ethiopia, Somalia, Palaearctic)

Megachile simulator Cockerell, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Sudan)

Megachile sinuata Friese, 1903 (Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile sinuata latitarsis (Friese, 1904) (South Africa)

Megachile sinuata bokanica (Cockerell, 1937) (South Africa)

Megachile sinuata senegalensis Pasteels, 1970 (Mali, Niger, Senegal)

Megachile sosia (Pasteels, 1970) (Malawi)

Megachile soutpansbergensis Eardley, 2012 (South Africa)

Megachile spatulicornis Pasteels, 1973 (South Africa)

Megachile spinarum Cockerell, 1937 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile spinosiventris Pasteels, 1965 (Namibia)

Megachile stefanellii Friese, 1903 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria)

Megachile stellarum Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa)

Megachile stellensis Pasteels, 1965 (South Africa)

Megachile sternintegra (Pasteels, 1965) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile striatula (Cockerell, 1931) (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile submetallica Benoist, 1955 (Madagascar)

Megachile sudanica Magretti, 1898 (Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan)

Megachile tangensis Cockerell, 1937 (Tanzania)

Megachile tantilla Cockerell, 1937 (South Africa)

Megachile taraxis Eardley, 2012 (South Africa)

Megachile tardula Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

Megachile temora Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

Megachile tessmanni Pasteels, 1965 (Cameroun)

Megachile tetracantha Cockerell, 1937 (Ghana, Senegal)

Megachile tetrodonta Pasteels, 1965 (Mozambique)

Megachile torrida Smith, 1853 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Neotropical – introduced)

Megachile transiens (Pasteels, 1965) (Tanzania)

Megachile trapezicauda Pasteels, 1965 (Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zimbabwe)

Megachile trichroma Friese, 1922 (Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile tricolor (Pasteels, 1970) (Senegal)

Megachile trisecta (Pasteels, 1976) (South Africa)

Megachile tritacantha (Pasteels, 1970) (South Africa)

Megachile truncata Friese, 1903 (Equatorial Guinea, Togo)

Megachile truncaticeps Friese, 1909 (Tanzania)

Megachile tsimbazazae (Pauly, 2001) (Madagascar)

Megachile uamiella Pasteels, 1965 (Central African Republic, Malawi)

Megachile umbiloensis Cockerell, 1920 (South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile ungulata Smith, 1853 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

Megachile unifasciata Radoszkowski, 1881 (Angola)

Megachile utra Vachal, 1903 (Tanzania)

Megachile vachali (Pasteels, 1965) (Ethiopia)

Megachile vandeveldii (Meunier, 1888) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile variscopula Cockerell, 1931 (Sudan)

Megachile venusta Smith, 1853 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Megachile venusta malelana Cockerell, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Megachile venustella Cockerell, 1917 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia)

Megachile venustella zambesica Cockerell, 1937 (Zambia)

Megachile vittatula Cockerell, 1920 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania)

Megachile voiensis Cockerell, 1937 (Kenya)

Megachile vulpinella Pasteels, 1973 (Cameroun)

Megachile wahlbergi Friese, 1901 (Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile waterbergensis Strand, 1927 (Namibia, South Africa)

Megachile whiteana Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

Megachile willowmorensis Brauns, 1926 (South Africa)

Megachile zambezica Pasteels, 1965 (Mozambique, South Africa)

Megachile zebrella Pasteels, 1973 (Kenya)

Megachile zombae Schulten, 1977 (Malawi)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Provision the nest with pollen and nectar. Some species are cleptoparasites laying their egg on the pollen stores collected by other megachilid bees.

References

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Eardley C. 2013. A taxonomic revision of the southern African leaf-cutter bees, Megachile Latreille sensu stricto and Heriadopsis Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae). Zootaxa 3601: 1-134. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3601.1.1

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Latreille, P.A. 1809. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum Secundum Ordinem Naturalem in Familias Disposita, Iconibus Exemplisque Plurimis Explicata. Tome 4. 399 pp. König, Paris et Argentorati.

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

Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Part I, Andrenidae and Apidae. 197 pp., pls. I-VI. British Museum, London

Credits

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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