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Issue: Vol. 4111 No. 4: 17 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.4.2
Page range: 334–364
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 1

Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical bee genus Serapista Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae: Megachilinae: Anthidiini)

Agricultural Research Council, Private Bag X134, Queenswood 0121, South Africa School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa.
USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5310, USA.
Africa pollinator pollen collector Sub-Saharan taxonomy Hymenoptera

Abstract

The Sub-Saharan bee genus Serapista Cockerell is revised. It comprises six species. Serapista pernigra Cockerell is restored as a valid species, S. aspernigra Eardley and Griswold, new species, is described from the eastern part of southern Africa and Serapista rhodesiana Mavromoustakis is synonymized with S. pernigra. Descriptions, keys for identification, distributional records and floral associations of the species of Serapista are given.

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