New records of the tribe Osmiini from Northern Africa (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Mohamed A. Shebl; Emsaed M. Bufliga; Fatma R. Hetita; Mohamed E. M. Esmael; Nabil S. El-Barbary

doi:10.13133/2284-4880/1445

New records of the tribe Osmiini from Northern Africa (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Authors

Mohamed A. Shebl Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4099-9846
Emsaed M. Bufliga Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Omar Almukhtar University, Al Bayda, Libya
Fatma R. Hetita Department of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Mohamed E. M. Esmael Department of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Nabil S. El-Barbary Department of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/1445

Keywords:

Osmiine Bees, Diversity, Biogeography, Hoplitis, Protosmia, Egypt, Libya

Abstract

This short note presents five newly recorded species of the tribe Osmiini from two Northern Africa countries: Egypt and Libya. The present article represents a first contribution of a series of more extensive studies on wild bees of Egypt and Libya, aimed to record further species not yet mentioned for these two countries, as well as to potentially discover even new species to Science.

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Published

2023-12-21

How to Cite

Shebl, M. A., Bufliga, E. M., Hetita, F. R., Esmael, M. E. M. and El-Barbary, N. S. (2023) “New records of the tribe Osmiini from Northern Africa (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)”, Fragmenta entomologica, 55(2), pp. 263–266. doi: 10.13133/2284-4880/1445.