Aglaoapis

Aglaoapis
	Aglaoapis tridentata , female, old collection material, collected by Heinrich Friese
Systematics
Order :	Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)
Superfamily :	Apoidea
without rank:	Bees (Apiformes)
Family :	Megachilidae
Subfamily :	Megachilinae
Genre :	Aglaoapis
Scientific name
	Aglaoapis
	Cameron , 1901

Aglaoapis is a genus of the family of Megachilidae . These bees are cuckoo bees , i. H. they live as a brut parasitic in other Megachilidae, especially in species of the genera Hoplitis .

There are three species of this genus found in Europe, Western Asia, the West Indies, and South Africa.

Aglaoapis bees are called two-tooth bees in German . However, this name is also used for species belonging to the genera Dioxys and Paradioxys . The genus Aglaoapis is sometimes synonymous with Dioxys , or viewed as a subgenus of Dioxys .

features

Aglaoapis are black bees, some with a red abdomen, they are 8 to 12 mm long. There are 2 cubital cells in the fore wing. There is a tooth-like outgrowth on each side of the scutellum . No pollen collecting apparatus in the females. The native species with a black abdomen, with white uninterrupted hair ties on segments 1 to 5 (males) or 1 to 4 (females).

Way of life

The animals are breeding parasites, the females visit flowers only to supply themselves with nectar. A. tridentata parasitizes on Osmia and Megachile . It flies in Germany from June to July.

Systematics

The genus Aglaoapis belongs within the subfamily Megachilinae to the tribe Dioxyini . This tribe contains eight genera: Aglaoapis (3 species), Allodioxys (4 species), Dioxys (15 species), Ensliniana (3 species), Eudioxys (2), Metadioxys (3) Paradioxys (2) Prodioxys (3). The types of dioxyini are all breeding parasites. In contrast to the other cuckoo bees, the sting and sting apparatus of the dioxyini is largely reduced. Anthidini and Dioxini are believed to be sister groups.

In the German bee literature, the genera Dioxys and Alglaoapis are often not differentiated. According to Michener, however, they differ very clearly in the structure of the male genitalia and the spine.

species

Dark two- toothed bee , Aglaoapis tridentata = syn. Dioxys tridentata ; Overall widespread, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Eastern Palaearctic, north to Finland; in Germany especially in the south, rarely, recently detected in Hessen; in Austria mainly in the east, in Switzerland in Valais and Graubünden .

Aglaoapis brevipennis (India)

Aglaoapis alata (South Africa)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ch. D. Michener : The Bees of the World . 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007, p. 538-542 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e E. Scheuchl & W. Willner: Pocket dictionary of wild bees in Central Europe . Quelle & Meyer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5 , pp. 31-32 .
↑ ^a ^b Species of solitary bees: two-tooth bees (Dioxys). Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e P. Westrich: The wild bees of Germany . E. Ulmer Verl., Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8186-0123-2 , pp. 188, 625 .
↑ S. Tischendorf: Dioxys tridentata (Nylander, 1848) a new wild bee species in Hesse . In: Hessian Faunistic Reports . tape 36 , 2018, p. 61-64 ( researchgate.net ).
↑ Profile: Dioxys tridentata. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .

[:0-1] Ch. D. Michener : The Bees of the World . 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007, p. 538-542 .

[:2-2] E. Scheuchl & W. Willner: Pocket dictionary of wild bees in Central Europe . Quelle & Meyer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5 , pp. 31-32 .

[:3-3] Species of solitary bees: two-tooth bees (Dioxys). Retrieved April 18, 2020 .

[:1-4] P. Westrich: The wild bees of Germany . E. Ulmer Verl., Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8186-0123-2 , pp. 188, 625 .

[5] S. Tischendorf: Dioxys tridentata (Nylander, 1848) a new wild bee species in Hesse . In: Hessian Faunistic Reports . tape 36 , 2018, p. 61-64 ( researchgate.net ).

[6] Profile: Dioxys tridentata. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .