Description
The purpose of this catalogue is to list the valid names, nomenclatorial history of, and references citing, the described bees of sub-saharan Africa and the western Indian Ocean islands, excluding the honey bee (Apis mellifera Linnaeus). The countries in which species occur are listed, as well as the type specimens/species of species/genera. Some ecological information is provided, namely flowers visited, plants used as nests, parasitic bees and host bees.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 10,407 records.
5 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Agricultural Research Council. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: da38f103-4410-43d1-b716-ea6b1b92bbac. Agricultural Research Council publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Checklist; Checklist
Contacts
- Originator
- Point Of Contact
- Somerset Street
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- Point Of Contact
- Somerset Street
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Geographic Coverage
Afrotropical Region
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-35.91, -20.55], North East [22.14, 53.95] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Bees
| Superfamily | Apoidea |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 8de37d73-4016-4dba-9934-b3ac24cb15c6 |
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| da38f103-4410-43d1-b716-ea6b1b92bbac | |
| http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=catalogueofafrotropicalbees |