Specialized diet of the solitary bee Epicharis rustica (Apoidea, Centridini): importance of the tree Byrsonima sericea | Zendy

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Specialized diet of the solitary bee Epicharis rustica (Apoidea, Centridini): importance of the tree Byrsonima sericea

Author(s) -

Fabrício Lopes Carvalho,

Anthony Raw

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

revista brasileira de entomologia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 1806-9665

pISSN - 0085-5626

DOI - 10.1016/j.rbe.2016.12.001

Subject(s) - biology , pollen , apoidea , genus , voltinism , nest (protein structural motif) , botany , zoology , larva , hymenoptera , biochemistry

Collection of pollen was verified in 248 samples of the material on the hind tibial scopae of the solitary bee, Epicharis rustica (Olivier, 1879) captured on their return to the nest. Of the total, 54% (133) of the samples had material on the scopae, 48 of then had only oil and 85 (64%) had both oil and pollen. For seven weeks, almost all (91%) of the 85,000 the pollen grains were of the tree, Byrsonima sericea DC. In the latter weeks the proportion of this species decreased. Like several other members of the genus, E. rustica is univoltine, oligolectic and nests in aggregations

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