Catalogue of Afrotropical Bees (no double headers)

Connal Eardley1, Willem Coetzer2

1 Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa; 2 South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, 6139, Grahamstown, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Connal Eardley (eardleyc@arc.agric.za), Willem Coetzer (w.coetzer@saiab.ac.za)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

The purpose of this catalogue is to list the valid names, nomenclatorial history of, and references citing, the described bees of sub-saharan Africa and the western Indian Ocean islands, excluding the honey bee (Apis mellifera Linnaeus). The countries in which species occur are listed, as well as the type specimens/species of species/genera. Some ecological information is provided, namely flowers visited, plants used as nests, parasitic bees and host bees.

Keywords: Checklist, Checklist

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=testing-bees

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Bees
Taxonomic ranks
Superfamily: Apoidea

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Afrotropical Region
Coordinates: 35°54'36''S and 22°8'24''N Latitude; 20°33'0''W and 53°57'0''E Longitude 

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Catalogue of Afrotropical Bees (no double headers)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=testing-bees
Publication date of data: 2022-11-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-02-19
Hierarchy level: Dataset