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Afromelecta Lieftinck

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

Afromelecta Lieftinck, 1972.

Classification

  Afromelecta bicuspis (Stadelmann, 1898) (Tanzania)
 

Afromelecta fulvohirta(Cameron, 1905) (South Africa)

Afromelecta lieftincki Eardley, 1991 (Kenya)

Distribution

Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania.

Biology

Unknown, but likley to be a cleptoparasitic, laying their eggs in other bees provisioned cells.

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.

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

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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