Female

Distribution

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Also in Palaearctic region

Biology

On flowers of: Acacia sp., Acanthospermum hispidum, Borreria verticillata, Cassia sp., Erythroxylum platyclados, Euphorbia cf. pulcherrima, Guiena senegalensis, Gouania sp., Helinus integrifolius, Indigofera sp., Ipomoea pes-caprae, Kochneria madagascariensis, Lobelia agrestis, Mangifera indica, Mesembryanthemum sp., Mitracarpus scaber, Oldenlandia sp., Portulaca sp., Rhoicissus digitata, Tamarindus sp., Terminalia prunioides, Terminalia pumila, Triumfetta rhomboidea, Tribulus sp., Ziziphus sp., Zygophyllum simplex (Eardley & Urban, 2010).

Reference

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

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

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).