Bees of the Azores: an annotated checklist (Apidae, Hymenoptera)

Abstract. We report 18 species of wild bees plus the domesticated honeybee from the Azores, which adds nine species to earlier lists. One species, Hylaeus azorae, seems to be a single island endemic, and three species are possibly native (Colletes eous, Halictus villosulus, and Hylaeus pictipes). Al...

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Autores principales: Weissmann, Julie A., Picanço, Ana, Borges, Paulo A.V., Schaefer, Hanno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28138299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.642.10773
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Sumario:Abstract. We report 18 species of wild bees plus the domesticated honeybee from the Azores, which adds nine species to earlier lists. One species, Hylaeus azorae, seems to be a single island endemic, and three species are possibly native (Colletes eous, Halictus villosulus, and Hylaeus pictipes). All the remaining bee species are most likely accidental introductions that arrived after human colonization of the archipelago in the 15(th) century. Bee diversity in the Azores is similar to bee diversity of Madeira and Cape Verde but nearly ten times lower than it is in the Canary Islands.

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