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Pollinators other than honey bees visiting certain medicinal plants in Egypt
Author(s) -
ElBerry A. R.,
Gawaad A. A. A.,
Moustafa M. A. K.,
ElGayar F. H.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
zeitschrift für angewandte entomologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1439-0418
pISSN - 0044-2240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0418.1974.tb01874.x
Subject(s) - biology , pollinator , botany , apidae , horticulture , hymenoptera , pollination , pollen
Insects pertaining to four families Syrphidae, Apidae, Bombyliidae, and Mutilidae were found to visit the flowers of Pimpinella anisum L., Carum carvi L., Coriandrum sativum L., (Umbelliferae), and Satunia hortensis I. (Labiatae) at El‐Kanater El‐Khairia, Egypt. Major visitors of P. anisum during its flowering stage (March‐May) were Syrphus corrollae (79.14%), Andrena flavipes (5.56%), Andrena ovatula (3.11%), Eristalis quinquelineatus (2.95%), Megachile flavipes (1.95%), Nomia rufiventris (1.95%), Eristalis aeneus (1.34%), Megachile submucida Al. (1.13%) in addition to another species of minor importance which occurred at a rate less than 1%. Important visitors of C. carir were Syrphus corollae (78.44%), Andrena ovatula (13.82%), A. flavipes (2.09%), Eristalis quinquelineatus (1.91%) and A. arsinoe (1.46%). Visitors of flowering C. sativum were S. corollae (79.53%), A. ovatula (7.84%), Colletes catoni (4.49%), A. morio (3.12%), and another species which existed in rates less than 1%. Visitors of flowering S. hortensis were S. corollae (24.52%), M. flavipes (25.77%), E. quinquelineatus (11.92%), Osmia sordida (11.65%), E. aeneus (8.59%), A. ovatula (6.77%), A. flavipes (2.59%), M. submucidi (2.06%) and some other species occurring in rates less than 2%. Zusammenfassung Insekten auβer der Honigbiene als Bestäuber medizinaler Pflanzen in Ägypten Insekten aus zwei Hymenopteren‐Familien: Apidae und Mutillidae sowie aus zwei Dipteren‐Familien: Syrphidae und Bombyliidae wurden ‐ außer der Honigbiene ‐ als Besucher von 33 Umbellifera‐Arten und 1 Labiata‐Art von medizineller Bedeutung festgestellt. Dominanter Besucher bei den drei Umbelliferen war Syrphus corollae , bei der Labiate dagegen Megachile flavipes , dicht gefolgt von S. corollae. Im übrigen war das Spektrum der besuchenden Arten zwischen den Pflanzenarten recht verschieden.