Pasites maculatus
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Pasites maculatus is a bee from the kind of Pasites , within the family of Apidae . The species is included in Switzerland's Red List of Endangered Species as critically endangered (Category 2).
features
The bees reach a body length of 7 to 8 millimeters. Their abdomen, like their legs, is predominantly red and has broad, white patches of hair on the tergites . They are clearly separated from each other on all segments.
Occurrence
The species is distributed from North Africa across Central Europe to Central Asia. It is absent in Germany, in Switzerland it is known from the Valais. In Austria she was in Burgenland and Lower Austria is missing.
Way of life
The flight time is between May and July. The females lay the u-shaped eggs in nests of nomia (rail bees), where the larvae live as kleptoparasites .
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literature
- Felix Amiet, Albrecht Krebs: Bees of Central Europe: genera, way of life, observation Haupt-Verlag, 1st edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-258-07713-0 .
- ^ P. Westrich: Dei wild bees in Germany . E. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-8186-0123-2 , pp. 217 .