Biologia de nidificação de Anthodioctes megachiloides Holmberg (Anthidiini, Megachilidae, Apoidea)

Alves‐dos‐Santos, Isabel

doi:10.1590/s0101-81752004000400002

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“…Anthodioctes cells and closing plug are made with resins, sometimes mixed with mud or wood chips (Morato, 2001a; Alves-dos- Santos, 2004;. Entrance diameter ranges from 5-11 mm (Morato, 2001a;.…”

Section: Megachilinaementioning

confidence: 99%

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What do we know about Neotropical trap‑nesting bees? Synopsis about their nest biology and taxonomy

Costa

Gonçalves

2019

Pap. Avulsos Zool.

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Cavity-nesting bees are enigmatic because they are difficult to observe in the wild, hence trap-nests (man-made cavities) provide the means by which these bees may be studied. Trap-nests is an efficient methodology to study these bees and are common worldwide. These traps have been used for a variety of reasons, including inventories, to examine pollen load, to study habitat disturbance, and bee conservation. However Neotropical trap-nesting bees’ taxonomy and biology are still poorly known and here we provide a review about these subjects. We searched for trap-nest bee studies in the Neotropical Region using Google Scholar and ISI Web of Science at any time in the past to December 2017. We found 109 independent studies, most of which were from Brazil (87 studies), followed by Argentina (10 studies), and other countries had fewer than five studies each. A total of 140 species, 24 genera, 10 tribes and three subfamilies were reported in trap-nests. Nest architecture was described for only 49 species. Taxonomy is only well-known for 14 genera, somewhat known for seven and is essentially unavailable for three genera. Construction material, closing plug and cell shape are similar among species in the same tribes and genera. Vestibular and intercalary cells, and the preliminary plug are variable, even at the specific level. Apinae is the most studied group with available data for all genera recorded in trap-nests. Colletinae is the least-studied group and nothing is known for their nesting biology. Megachilinae is intermediate, with some studies of taxonomy and nesting. We suggest that further trap-nest studies should provide more detailed information on nest architecture and construction materials, including explicit mention of structures that are absent. All Neotropical bees need more taxonomic studies, but some, such as Hylaeus and Megachile, require more attention since Hylaeus is essentially unknown and Megachile is very common on trap-nests.

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Section: Megachilinaementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Entrance diameter ranges from 5-11 mm (Morato, 2001a;. The 2-11 brood cells are linear, some with vestibules and preliminary plugs (Morato, 2001a; Alves-dos- Santos, 2004;. Anthodioctes megachiloides Holmberg 1903 nests sometimes have intercalary cells and distal empty space (Alves-dos- Santos, 2004).…”

Section: Megachilinaementioning

confidence: 99%

What do we know about Neotropical trap‑nesting bees? Synopsis about their nest biology and taxonomy

Costa

Gonçalves

2019

Pap. Avulsos Zool.

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“…Some bees gather plant fibers in order to be used for coating their cells; some, utilize resin, often cobbled with other materials, such as pebbles, leaf pieces or clay. Despite the little knowledge about the nesting habits of those bees, and moreover, the information on that regard are exclusively based on groups that have built nests in trap-nests (Alves-dos-Santos, 2004;Alves-dos-Santoset al, 2004;Camarotti-de-Lima & Martins, 2005), yet a few biological and ecological data are related to the Anthidiini in Brazil (Camarotti- de-Lima & Martins, 2005).…”

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Bionomy and Nesting Behavior of the Bee Epanthidium tigrinum (Schrottky, 1905) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Trap-Nests

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About 85% of pollinating bees are solitary, but few are used for agricultural pollination. The Anthidiini tribe looks very promising in Brazil, in the light of ecosystem utility, but it is still a species with poorly scientific research[EdM1] . To fill this gap studies on the bionomics of this species may collaborate on future studies on use of Epanthidium tigrinum as pollinator. Presented research results aims to describe the bionomy and the biological cycle of the bee E. tigrinum (SCHROTTKY, 1905) in pre-existing cavities. Conventional trap-nests inserted in wooden blocks were placed in covered spaces and daily observations of spontaneous nesting as well as individually tagged bees and nests incubated in B.O.D. were carried out during 11 months in Fortaleza-CE. The results showed that the competition with other species of bees for the pre-existing cavities and the lack of food resources or nest building materials are limiting factors for the establishment of E. tigrinum populations. However, once these problems were remedied, the bees showed multivoltine behavior, nesting throughout the experimental period. Data from 16 nests studied showed that bee foraging began on average at 7:50 a.m., foragers collected pollen in the morning and resin in the afternoon, took on average 15 days to complete a nest and there was a negative correlation with the temperature for the number of nests and for the number of cells constructed. The offspring took 43 days for the emergency, presented sexual ratio of 1.2: 1 (n = 66 emerged bees) and a mortality rate of 18.5%. The number of nests constructed per female ranged from 1 to 4 with an average size of 7.97 mm. It is concluded that E. tigrinum shows potential to rational rearing in trap nests aiming crop pollination. [EdM1]

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“…The tribe also possesses obligatory cleptoparasitic genera that parasitize other species of Megachilinae, with a few taxa attacking unrelated bee groups, such as Hoplostelis Dominique that parasitizes nests of orchid bees (Apinae, Euglossini). Reports on the nest biology of the tribe are relatively scarce, especially for neotropical taxa (Jörgensen 1912, Claude-Joseph 1926, Janvier 1955, Laroca and Rosado-Neto 1975, Morato and Campos 2000, Morato 2001, Alves-dos-Santos 2004, Camarotti-de-Lima and Martins 2005, Zanella and Ferreira 2005, Rozen 2015, Alvarez et al 2015. Among Brazilian species, limited information indicates that Dicranthidium arenarium (Ducke, 1907) (Laroca and Rosado-Neto 1975) and Anthodioctes manauara Urban, 1999(Morato 2001 construct their nests in abandoned mud nest of eumenine wasps.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nests of bees of the anthidiine genus Ananthidium Urban (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Megachilinae)

Parizotto¹,

Melo²

2015

JHR

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We present data on nests of the two species of the neotropical bee genus Ananthidium Urban (Megachilinae, Anthidiini). Five nests of Ananthidium dilmae Urban, a species from southern and southeastern Brazil, were found in grassland areas at the Vila Velha State Park, Ponta Grossa, in Paraná State. The aerial nests were made of resin mixed with plant fibers and each contained one or two cells. One female and one male emerged from two of the nests. Notes on the nest of Ananthidium inerme (Friese), a species known from Argentina and Paraguay, are provided based on two nests deposited in Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde, Germany. This species also builds aerial resin nests attached to plant stems, with external shape and dimensions similar to those of Ananthidium dilmae.

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Biologia de nidificação de Anthodioctes megachiloides Holmberg (Anthidiini, Megachilidae, Apoidea)

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

What do we know about Neotropical trap‑nesting bees? Synopsis about their nest biology and taxonomy

What do we know about Neotropical trap‑nesting bees? Synopsis about their nest biology and taxonomy

Bionomy and Nesting Behavior of the Bee Epanthidium tigrinum (Schrottky, 1905) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Trap-Nests

Nests of bees of the anthidiine genus Ananthidium Urban (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Megachilinae)

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