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Pasites Jurine
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family:
Apidae;
Subfamily: Nomadinae; Tribe:
Ammobatini)
Pasites Jurine,
1807. Type species: Pasites maculatus Jurine, 1807, by
original designation.
Morgania Smith, 1854. Type species: Pasites
dichroa Smith, 1854, by monotypy.
Omachthes Gerstaecker, 1869. Type species:
Omachthes carnifex Gerstaecker, 1869, by original designation.
Pasitomachthes Bischoff, 1923 |
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Pasites
appletoni (Cockerell, 1910) |
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Pasites
atratulus Friese, 1922 |
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Pasites
barkeri (Cockerell, 1919)
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Pasites
bicolor Friese, 1901
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Pasites
braunsi (Bischoff, 1923)
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Pasites carnifex
(Gerstaecker, 1869)
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Pasites
dichroa Smith, 1854
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Pasites friesei
Cockerell, 1910
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Pasites gabonensis (Vachal, 1903)
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Pasites gnomus Eardley, 1997
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Pasites histrio (Gerstaecker, 1869)
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Pasites
humecta Eardley, 1997 |
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Pasites
jenseni (Friese, 1915) |
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Pasites
jonesi (Cockerell, 1921) |
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Pasites
namibiensis Eardley, 1997 |
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Pasites
nilssoni Eardley, 1997
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Pasites
paulyi Eardley, 1997 |
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Pasites
rotundiceps (Bischoff, 1923) |
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Pasites
rufipes (Friese, 1915) |
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Pasites
somalicus Eardley, 1997 |
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Pasites
tegularis Friese, 1922 |
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Pasites
tropica (Cockerell, 1933) |
Distribution
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Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,
Madagascar, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe. |
Biology
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Cleptoparasites of other bees. |
References
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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
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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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