Icteranthidium

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Icteranthidium
Icteranthidium grohmanni, male

Icteranthidium grohmanni , male

Systematics
Order : Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)
Superfamily : Apoidea
without rank: Bees (Apiformes)
Family : Megachilidae
Subfamily : Megachilinae
Genre : Icteranthidium
Scientific name
Icteranthidium
Michener , 1948

Icteranthidium is a genus in the Megachilidae family. The genus is restricted to the Old World, in northern Africa, Europe and Asia (up to Pakistan). A relatively large number of species are common in the arid regions of Asia. Well 25 species are known.

The bees of the genus Icteranthidium be on German resin bees called, but that name is not unique (see resin and wool bees ). Some authors include Icteranthidium in the genus Anthidium .

In Central Europe there is only one species, the steppe resin bee (= Icteranthidium laterale ), which occurs in Switzerland (in Valais ) and was recently found in Lower Austria ( Marchfeld ).

features

Icteranthidium bees have extensive yellow markings, sometimes almost their entire body is yellow. They are only slightly hairy. The underside of the abdomen of the females is equipped with dense hairs, which are used to transport pollen (abdominal collector). The bees are approx. 8 to 15 mm long. The forewings have two discoid cells.

Icteranthidium species can only be distinguished from the species of the genera Anthidium , Rhodanthidium and Pseudoanthidium by fine morphological features .

Way of life

The Icteranthidium bees are solitary bees that collect pollen and build nests.

The nests of the steppe resin bee are created in cavities in the ground. A nest contains about a dozen brood cells made from tree sap. The steppe resin bee flies from June to September, it has one generation per year. It occurs in dry locations with a steppe character (name).

Systematics

The genus Icteranthidium belongs within the subfamily Megachilinae to the tribe Anthidini . According to Michener (2007), this tribe is subdivided into 37 genera. Icteranthidium belongs to the Dianthidium genus group with 11 other genera, including Anthidiellum and Rhodanthidium , which are also represented in Central Europe.

From Icteranthidium lateral two subspecies are described, I. lateral lateral and I. lateral scutellar .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ch. D. Michener: The Bees of the World . 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore & London 2007, pp. 521 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f E. Scheuchl & W. Willner: Pocket dictionary of the wild bees of Central Europe . Quelle & Meyer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5 , pp. 217-228 .
  3. ^ A b P. Westrich: The wild bees of Germany . E. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2018, p. 578 .
  4. ↑ Solitary bee species: Woolly and resin bees (Anthidium). Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sensational wild bee find in eastern Marchfeld. September 25, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Sensational discovery of wild bees in the sandy areas of the eastern Marchfeld. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ JR Litman, T. Griswold, BN Danforth: Phylogenetic systematics and a revised generic classification of anthidiine bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). In: Molecular phylogenetics and evolution . tape 100 , 2016, p. 183-198 ( researchgate.net ).
  8. ↑ Icteranthidium lateral (Latreille, 1809). Retrieved April 9, 2020 .