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Issue: Vol. 2264 No. 1: 14 Oct. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-10-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2264.1.6
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

First record of the tribe Biastini from the Afrotropical Region (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research Institute, Private Bag x134, Queenswood, 0121/ School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P. Bag X01 Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209. South Africa
Hymenoptera Schwarzia cleptoparasitic bee East Africa

Abstract

Biastini, which are known to be cleptoparasites on Rophitinae (Halictidae), is recorded from Kenya and Tanzania. The genus and species, Schwarzia emmae Eardley, are described as new.

References

  1. Michener, C.D. (2007). The Bees of the World. The John Hopkins University Press. Baltimore and London. 913 pp.