Southern and East African Melitta Kirby (Apoidea: Melittidae)

African Entomology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 293-305

  Eardley, C ^a   Kuhlmann, M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acacia; Asclepias; Augea; Bee; Berkheya; Cleome; Conicosia; Heliophila; Hermbstaedtia; Identification key; Lebeckia; Nomada; Oxalis; Pollinators; Ruschia; Wahlenbergia; Watsonia; Zygophyllum

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; APOIDEA; ASCLEPIAS; AUGEA; BERKHEYA; CLEOME; CONICOSIA; DANAE; HELIOPHILA; HERMBSTAEDTIA; LEBECKIA; MELITTA; MELITTA CAPENSIS; MELITTIDAE; NOMADA; OXALIS; REDIVIVA; RUSCHIA; WAHLENBERGIA; WATSONIA; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE; ZYGOPHYLLUM;

EID: 33750478624     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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