The biology of a Patellapis (s. str.) species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae): Sociality described for the first time in this bee genus

Apidologie

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-197

  Timmermann, Kim ^a   Kuhlmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biology; Communal; Halictidae; Nest; Patellapis; Sociality; Sweat bee

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEE; BIOLOGY; HOST PLANT; KLEPTOPARASITISM; NEST STRUCTURE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SEASONALITY; SOCIALISM;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

APOIDEA; ASTERACEAE; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NOMADINAE; OXALIDACEAE; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

EID: 41949141767     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2008003     Document Type: Article

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