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Fidelia borearipa
Whitehead & Eardley, 2003 (South Africa)
Fidelia braunsiana
Friese, 1905 (Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia fasciata
Whitehead & Eardley, 2003 (Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia
friesei (Brauns,
1926) (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia hessei
Whitehead & Eardley, 2003 (Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia kobrowi
Brauns, 1905 (Namibia, South Africa) |
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Fidelia major
Friese, 1911 (Namibia, South Africa) |
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Fidelia ornata
(Cockerell, 1932) (Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia pallidula
(Cockerell, 1935) (Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia paradoxa
Friese, 1899 (Namibia, South Africa)
Fidelia villosa
Brauns, 1902 (Namibia, South Africa) |
Distribution
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Botswana,
Namibia, South Africa. |
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Fidelia
female carrying a piece of leaf (that she has cut out herself) back
to her nest to line the burrow with. Photographs © Dawid Kok (Bloemfontein). |
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Fidelia
nests in
Kalahari dune-veld east of Keetmanshoop in Namibia.
Photograph © Dawid Kok (Bloemfontein). |
Biology
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Nest in soil, often in aggregations. Burrows may be as
long as 2 meters, usually constructed at an angle into the ground and
are lined with plant material. These bees collect pollen from a variety
of flowers commonly those in the families Asteraceae and
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References
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Brothers D.J. 1999.
Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea,
Vespoidea and Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.
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.
Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins
University Press. 953 pp. |
Credits
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Photographs of pinned specimens and map
illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Biology
photographs © Dawid Kok (Bloemfontein).
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