Steppe gloss bees

Steppe gloss bees
Systematics
Order :	Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)
Superfamily :	Apoidea
without rank:	Bees (Apiformes)
Family :	Real bees (Apidae)
Genre :	Steppe gloss bees
Scientific name
	Ammobatoides
	Radoszkowski , 1868

The steppe gloss bees ( Ammobatoides ) are a genus of the Apidae family , subfamily Nomadinae , within the bees . They are cuckoo bees , i.e. breeding parasites.

In the genus Ammobatoides only eight species are described, they are distributed in the Palearctic , only one species occurs in South Africa. In Central Europe only the very rare species A. abdominalis is known.

The steppe gloss bees , despite the similarity of names, have nothing to do with the gloss bees , which belong to the Halictidae .

features

Steppe glossy bees are strikingly large, with a body length of 10 to 14 mm. The abdomen of the females is largely red in color, the males have a black abdomen. The hairs are short, more distinct and white in the males. The wings are brownish, in the fore wing there are two cubital cells. The males have strikingly large eyes that converge towards the median and are unique in the subfamily Nomadinae.

Way of life

The bees of the genus Ammobatoides are breeding parasites ( cuckoo bees ), they lay their eggs in the nests of bees of the genera Melitturga and Meliturgula , whose nests are in the flat, little or not overgrown ground. The adult bees fly on blossoms only to supply themselves with nectar. The native species flies in June and August. At night the steppe gloss bees sleep near the host's nests by clinging to stalks upside down.

species

Ammobatoides abdominalis . Lost in southern and eastern Europe, east to Lake Baikal, in Germany and Austria, currently still in the Aosta Valley , Italy.
Ammobatoides luctuosus . North Macedonia, Turkey
Ammobatoides okalii . Bulgaria
Ammobatoides rubescens . Turkey
Ammobatoides radoszkowskii . Eastern Palaearctic, Russia and China, east of Lake Baikal
Ammobatoides scriptus . France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria
Ammobatoides shaft i . Morocco, Tunisia
Ammobates braunsi . South Africa, Cape Province

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Erwin Scheuchl & Willner, Wolfgang: Pocket dictionary of wild bees in Central Europe . 1st edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, Hunsrück 2016, ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5 .
↑ ^a ^b Ch. D. Michener: The Bees of the World . 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007, p. 73, 653-655 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ M. Y. Proshchalykin & Lelej: Review of the genus Ammobatoides Radoszkowski, 1867 (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Nomadinae) from Russia and neighboring countries . In: Zootaxa . tape 3852 , no. 4 , 2014, p. 445-460 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Paul Westrich: The wild bees of Germany . E. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-8186-0123-2 , pp. 215-216, 701 .
↑ Solitary bee species: Steppe glossy bees (Ammobatoides). Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Discover Life. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .

[:2-1] Erwin Scheuchl & Willner, Wolfgang: Pocket dictionary of wild bees in Central Europe . 1st edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, Hunsrück 2016, ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5 .

[:3-2] Ch. D. Michener: The Bees of the World . 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007, p. 73, 653-655 .

[:4-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ M. Y. Proshchalykin & Lelej: Review of the genus Ammobatoides Radoszkowski, 1867 (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Nomadinae) from Russia and neighboring countries . In: Zootaxa . tape 3852 , no. 4 , 2014, p. 445-460 .

[:1-4] Paul Westrich: The wild bees of Germany . E. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-8186-0123-2 , pp. 215-216, 701 .

[5] Solitary bee species: Steppe glossy bees (Ammobatoides). Retrieved January 19, 2020 .

[:0-6] Discover Life. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .