Melittidae

Eardley, Connal & Urban, Rosalind, 2010, Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) 2455, Zootaxa 2455, pp. 1-548 : 193-197

Melittidae :

Melittinae:

Rediviva Friese

Andrena (Rediviva) Friese, 1911b: 671 . Type species: Andrena peringueyi Friese, 1911a , by designation of Cockerell, 1931h: 402.

Rediviva Friese : Michener 1981: 44–47; Michener 1997b: 52; Steiner 1990: 176, 186; Steiner 1992: 43–44; Michener 2000 13, 15, 65, 90, 398, 412–413, 415, 675; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–277.

Notomelitta Cockerell, 1933g: 128 . Type species: Rediviva neliana Cockerell, 1931h , by original designation and monotypy; Michener 1981: 45, syn.

Rediviva albifasciata Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Colpias mollis , Crysticapnos vesicularis , Hemimeris racemosa , Othonna arbuscula , Oxalis comosa , Oxalis pes-caprae , Oxalis sp.

Rediviva albifasciata Whitehead and Steiner, 1994: 1–11 , female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Struck 1994a: 15; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–144, 148, 150, 173–179, 244, 267; Pauw 2005: 1882.

Rediviva albofasciata [!] Whitehead and Steiner: Steiner and Whitehead 1996: 136.

Rediviva alonsoae Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Lotononis hirsuta , Moraea miniata , Oxalis obtusa , Oxalis pes-caprae , Oxalis sp.

Rediviva alonsoae nomen nudum: Steiner 1989b: 1157.

Rediviva alonsoae Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149–150, 247–254, 267, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva autumnalis Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia capsularis , Cyphia sp.

Rediviva autumnalis Whitehead and Steiner, In : Whitehead et al. 2008: 124, 132–134, male holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva aurata Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia capensis , Diascia diffusa , Diascia elongata , Diascia grantiana , Diascia speciosa , Diascia sp. , Moraea miniata , Oxalis pes-caprae , Romulea cruciata , Romulea eximia .

Rediviva aurata Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149–159, 224–231, 244, 268, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Goldblatt et al. 2002: 256.

Rediviva brunnea Whitehead |& Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia cordata , Diascia purpurea , Diascia vigilis , Lotononis lotononoides , Lotononis sp. , Moraea inclinata , Moraea sp. , Wahlenbergia cuspidata .

Rediviva brunnea nomen nudum: Steiner 1989a: 176–177, 179.

Rediviva brunnea Whitehead and Steiner, In : Whitehead et al. 2008: 123, 125, male holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva colorata Michener South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia cordata . Rediviva colorata Michener, 1981 : iii, 43, 45–47, 124–126, female holotype (BMNH) South Africa; Vogel 1984: 512;

Manning and Brothers 1986: 107, 109–110, 112–113; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 273; Steiner 1989a: 176–177,

179, 181; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 144; Whitehead et al. 2008: 123–126.

Rediviva emdeorum Vogel & Michener

South Africa. On flowers of: Arctotheca calendula , Diascia floribunda , Diascia insignis , Diascia macrophylla , Diascia namaquensis , Diascia tanyceras , Diascia tenuis , Diascia whiteheadii , Lachenalia sp. , Moraea sp. , Oxalis sp. , Trachyandra sp.

Rediviva emdeorum nomen nudum: Vogel 1984: 512, 515–516.

Rediviva emdeorum Vogel and Michener, 1985: 359 , 361–363, female holotype (BMNH) South Africa; Manning and

Brothers 1986: 108; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 260; Roubik 1989: 55; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 144; Michener 2000: 13; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–145, 149–150, 188–196, 269; Gess and Gess 2003: 172, 436.

Rediviva gigas Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Ceratandra atrata , Ceratandra bicolor , Ixianthes retzioides , Moraea ramosissima , Pterygodium acutifolium , Satyrium rhynchanthum , Tritoniopsis parviflora , Wachendorfia paniculata , Watsonia borbonica , Watsonia marginata .

Rediviva gigas Whitehead and Steiner, 1993: 159–166 , female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Steiner and Whitehead 1996: 131–138; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–144, 148, 151–159, 269–270; Manning and Goldblatt 2002: 171–176; Manning and Goldblatt 2005: 463, 465, 470, 471.

Rediviva intermedia Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Arctotheca calendula , Diascia cardiosepala , Diascia floribunda , Diascia macrophylla , Diascia nana , Hemimeris centrodes , Hemimeris racemosa , Othonna sp.

Rediviva intermedia Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 148, 151, 167–173, 270–272, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva intermixta (Cockerell)

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Arctotheca calendula , Bulbinella floribunda , Cysticapnos vesicaria , Diascia bicornuta , Diascia cardiosepala , Diascia floribunda , Diascia lewisiae , Diascia longicornis , Diascia macrophylla , Diascia parviflora , Diascia tanyceras , Diascia veronicoides , Diascia whiteheadii , Diascia sp. , Erodium cicutarium , Geissorhiza aspera , Grielum humifusum , Hemimeris centrodes , Hemimeris racemosa , Lotononis hirsuta , Moraea bifida , Moraea miniata , Nemesia cheiranthus , Nemesia leipoldtii , Othonna sp. , Oxalis obtusa , Oxalis pes-caprae , Polycarena sp. , Polygala sp. , Raphanus raphanistrum , Romulea sp. , Senecio arenarius , Senecio littoreus , Wachendorfia sp. , Zygophyllum sp.

Notomelitta intermixta Cockerell, 1934b: 450–452 , male holotype (BMNH) South Africa.

Rediviva intermixta (Cockerell) : Michener 1981: 47; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 144; Steiner and Whitehead 1996: 136; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–145, 151, 179–188; Pauw 2005: 1882; Pauw 2006: 920.

Rediviva longimanus Michener South Africa. On flowers of: Cysticapnos vesicaria , Diascia barberae , Diascia bicornuta , Diascia floribunda , Diascia longicornis , Diascia parviflora , Diascia whiteheadii , Disperis bolusiana , Disperis circumflexa , Disperis macrocorys , Heliophila sp. , Holothrix aspera , Homeria miniata , Moraea bifida , Moraea demissa , Moraea fragrans , Moraea miniata , Moraea tripetala , Pterygodium pentherianum , Pterygodium schelpei . Rediviva longimanus Michener, 1981 : iii, 46–48, 123–124, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Whitehead, Schelpe and Anthony 1984: 186; Vogel 1984: 512–513, 515–516; Vogel and Michener 1985: 359–363; Manning and

Brothers 1986: 108; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 260; Steiner 1989a: 173; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 144;

Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–145, 149, 151, 196–203, 272; Gess and Gess 2003: 172, 252, 254 436;

Goldblatt et al. 2005: 36; Gess and Gess 2006: 9, 35.

Rediviva macgregori Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Arctotheca calendula , Bulbinella nutans , Corycium deflexum , Diascia cardiosepala , Diascia dissimulans , Diascia floribunda , Diascia insignis , Diascia lewisiae , Diascia macrophylla , Diascia parviflora , Diascia tanyceras , Diascia veronicoides , Diascia whiteheadii , Dimorphotheca pluvialis , Disperis purpurata , Felicia sp. , Geissorhiza calendula , Hemimeris centrodes , Hemimeris racemosa , Hemimeris sabulosa , Hesperantha cucullata , Lotononis hirsuta , Othonna sp. , Moraea bifida , Moraea pritzeliana , Moraea tripetala , Nemesia leipoldtii , Pterygodium hallii , Senecio littoreus , Sparaxis elegans ,

Rediviva macgregori nomen nudum: Steiner 1989a: 173.

Rediviva macgregori Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149–150, 204–212, 272–273, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Goldblatt et al. 2005: 36.

Rediviva macgregoriana [!] Whitehead and Steiner: Goldblatt et al. 2005: 35.

Rediviva mcgregori [!] Whitehead and Steiner: Danforth et al. 2006a: 15119, 15121; Danforth et al. 2006b: 366, 367, 368.

Rediviva micheneri Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia capensis , Diascia elongata , Diascia grantiana , Diascia longicornis ,

Diascia speciosa , Diascia whiteheadii , Diascia sp. , Dimorphotheca sp. , Moraea fugax , Oxalis pes-caprae .

Rediviva micheneri Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149, 151, 212–219, 274, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Pauw 2006: 925.

Rediviva neliana Cockerell

Lesotho, South Africa. On flowers of: Bowkeria verticillata , Corycium dracomontanum , Corycium sp. ,

Cyphia triphylla , Cyphia sp. , Diascia anastrepta , Diascia barberae , Diascia capsularis , Diascia cardiosepala , Diascia fetcaniensis , Diascia cordata , Diascia fetcaniensis , Diascia integerrima , Diascia megathura , Diascia purpurea , Diascia rigescens , Diascia stachyoides , Diascia stricta , Diascia tugelensis ,

Diascia vigilis , Dierama tysonii , Disperis renibracteata , Disperis stenoplectron , Disperis wealei , Geranium amatolicum , Geranium drakensbergensis , Heliophila rigidiuscula , Hesperantha sp. , Lotononis lotononoides ,

Lotononis sp. , Moraea inclinata , Oxalis semiloba , Selago tephrodes , Tritonia rubro – lucens , Wahlenbergia cuspidata , Wahlenbergia krebsii , Wahlenbergia zeyheri , Wahlenbergia sp.

Rediviva neliana Cockerell, 1931h: 401–402 , male holotype (BMNH) South Africa; Cockerell 1934b: 449; Michener 1981: 45–47; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 259–277; Steiner 1989a: 176–177, 179–181, 183; Steiner 1990: 186– 187, 193; Steiner and Whitehead 1990: 1701–1706; Steiner and Whitehead 1991a: 1493–1494, 1496, 1499; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 143–144, 154; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 145; Michener 2000: 415; Whitehead et al. 2008: 123, 127–128.

Andrena (Notomelitta) neliana (Cockerell) : Arnold 1947: 209; Michener 1997b: 42.

Notomelitta politissima Cockerell, 1934b: 449 , 451–452, female holotype (BMNH) South Africa; Cockerell 1936k: 359; Cockerell 1944d: 407.

Rediviva politissima (Cockerell) : Michener 1981: 46–47; Vogel and Michener 1985: 361–362; Manning and Brothers 1986: 107–111; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 273,?syn.; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 144–154, syn.; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 146.

Rediviva nigra nomen nudum

Rediviva nigra nomen nudum: Steiner 1989b: 1157.

Rediviva nitida Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Arctotheca calendula , Bulbinella nutans , Diascia bicolor ,

Diascia cardiosepala , Diascia decipiens , Diascia ellaphieae , Diascia floribunda , Diascia fragrans , Diascia lewisiae , Diascia sacculata , Hemimeris gracilis , Hemimeris racemosa , Moraea bifida , Moraea miniata ,

Oxalis obtusa , Selago fourcadei , Sisymbrium orientale .

Rediviva nitida nomen nudum: Steiner 1992: 43–46.

Rediviva nitida Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149, 151, 254–293, 274–275, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Gess and Gess 2003: 391.

Rediviva pallidula Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Cysticapnos pruinosus , Diascia anastrepta , Diascia barberae , Diascia fetcaniensis , Diascia integerrima , Diascia stricta , Geranium sp. , Stachys sp. , Sutera sp.

Rediviva pallidula nomen nudum: Steiner and Whitehead 1991a: 1493–1494, 1496–1500.

Rediviva pallidula Whitehead and Steiner, 1992: 145–154 , female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 146; Whitehead et al. 2008: 124, 127–130.

Rediviva parva Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Corycium crispum , Cysticapnos vesicaria , Diascia capensis ,

Diascia ellaphieae , Diascia elongata , Diascia grantiana , Diascia lewisiae , Diascia pachyceras , Diascia speciosa , Diascia sp. , Hemimeris racemosa , Heliophila sp. , Hemimeris sabulosa , Geissorhiza aspera ,

Moraea miniata , Moraea papilionacea , Moraea sp. , Nylandtia spinosa , Oxalis obtusa , Oxalis pes-caprae ,

Oxalis sp. , Trachyandra sp. , Wachendorfia paniculata .

Rediviva parva Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149–150, 239–247, 275–276, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Goldblatt et al. 2005: 36; Pauw 2005: 1882; Pauw 2006: 920.

Rediviva peringueyi (Friese)

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Corycium crispum , Cysticapnos vesicaria , Diascia batteniana , Diascia capensis , Diascia ellaphieae , Diascia elongata , Diascia grantiana , Diascia lewisiae , Diascia pachyceras , Diascia speciosa , Diascia sp. , Geissorhiza aspera , Heliophila sp. , Hemimeris racemosa , Hemimeris sabulosa , Moraea miniata , Moraea gawleri , Moraea sp. , Nylandtia spinosa , Oxalis obtusa , Oxalis pes-caprae , Oxalis sp. , Trachyandra sp. , Wachendorfia paniculata .

Andrena (Rediviva) peringueyi Friese, 1911a: 671–672 , two female syntypes (SAMC or ZMHB) South Africa; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 85.

Andrena peringueyi Friese : Cockerell, 1933g: 127–128; Arnold 1947: 209; Anonymous 1958: 30.

Rediviva peringueyi (Friese) : Cockerell 1931h: 402; Cockerell 1932b: 448; Michener 1981; iii, 43–47, 123–124; Vogel 1984: 512; Vogel and Michener 1985: 261–362; Manning and Brothers 1986: 108; Steiner 1989a: 173; Whitehead and Steiner 1992: 144; Michener 1997b: 52; Michener 2000: 13; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 143–145, 149, 231–239, 276–277; Pauw 2005: 1882; Goldblatt et al. 2005: 35, Pauw 2006: 917–926; Pauw 2007: 1759–1768.

Rediviva purpurea nomen nudum

On flowers of: Diascia cordata .

Rediviva purpurea nomen nudum: Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 273.

Rediviva racemosa nomen nudum

Rediviva racemosa nomen nudum: Steiner 1989b: 1157.

Rediviva rhodosoma Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia capsularis , Scabiosa sp. , Wahlenbergia sp.

Rediviva rhodosoma Whitehead and Steiner, In : Whitehead et al. 2008: 124, 133–136, male holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva rufescens nomen nudum

Rediviva rufescens nomen nudum: Michener 1981: 46.

Rediviva ruficornis Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Diascia capensis , Diascia diffusa , Diascia sp. , Moraea miniata .

Rediviva ruficornis Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 149–150, 219–224, 277, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva rufipes (Friese)

South Africa. On flowers of: Bulbinae sp., Diascia parviflora , Diascia patens , Diascia veronicoides ,

Cysticapnos vesicaria , Hemimeris gracilis , Hemimeris racemosa , Lachenalia sp. , Lotononis hirsuta , Nemesia

sp., Oxalis pes-caprae , Polygala sp. , Senecio sp.

Melitta rufipes Friese, 1913b: 575 , male holotype (ZMHB) South Africa; Friese 1921: 1094; Cockerell 1934b: 450; Cockerell 1935a: 76; Rasmussen and Ascher 2008: 92.

Rediviva rufipes (Friese) : Eardley and Kuhlmann 2006: 305; Whitehead et al. 2008: 123–124.

Rediviva bicava Whitehead and Steiner, 2001: 143 , 148, 151, 159–167, 268–269, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Pauw 2005: 1882; Pauw 2006: 920; Whitehead et al. 2008: 122–14, syn.

Rediviva rufocincta (Cockerell) South Africa. On flowers of: Alonsoa unilabiata , Bowkeria citrina , Bowkeria verticillata , Diascia capensis , Diascia diffusa , Diascia integerrima , Diascia mollis , Diascia sp. , Lotononis sp. , Moraea miniata , Moraea sp. , Otholobium polystictum, Rubis sp., yellow legumes. Notomelitta rufocincta Cockerell, 1944d: 407 , male and female syntypes (BMNH) South Africa. Rediviva rufocincta (Cockerell) : Michener 1981: 43–47, 121, 124; Vogel and Michener 1985: 360; Manning and

Brothers 1986: 107, 110–112; Steiner and Whitehead 1988: 260–277; Steiner 1989b: 1157; Steiner and

Whitehead 1990: 1705–1706; Steiner and Whitehead 1991a: 1493–1494, 1946, 1948–1950; Whitehead and

Steiner 1992: 144; Steiner and Whitehead 1996: 135; Michener 2000: 13; Whitehead and Steiner 2001: 146;

Whitehead et al. 2008: 124, 134, 137–139.

Rediviva saetigera Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Anastrabe integerrima , Bowkeria cymosa .

Rediviva saetigera Whitehead and Steiner, 1992: 143 , 155–163, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa; Whitehead and Steiner 1993: 165; Whitehead et al. 2008: 124, 138–140.

Rediviva transkeiana Whitehead & Steiner

South Africa. On flowers of: Diascia racemulosa .

Rediviva transkeiana Whitehead and Steiner, In : Whitehead et al. 2008: 124, 133–134, 136–137, female holotype (SAMC) South Africa.

Rediviva tropicalis (Cockerell)

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Notomelitta tropicalis Cockerell, 1934b: 450–452 , male holotype (RMCA) Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Rediviva tropicalis (Cockerell) : Michener 1981: 47.