Afrocypholaelaps africanus ( Evans, 1963 )

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Afrocypholaelaps africanus ( Evans, 1963)

Neocypholaelaps africana Evans, 1963: 224 .

Neocypholaelaps lindquisti Prasad, 1968: 130 . Synonymy by Mašán (2017: 16).

Afrocypholaelaps ranomafanaensis Haitlinger, 1987b: 531 . Synonymy by Mašán (2017: 16). Afrocypholaelaps analicullus Ho, Ma, Wang & Severinghaus, 2010: 88 . Synonymy by Mašán (2017: 16).

Afrocypholaelaps africanus . — Mašán 2017: 16 .

More information about the synonyms of this species are available in Mašán (2017: 16).

Distribution and habitats – Angola, on an African stingless bee [( Meliponula bocandei (Spinola) ] (reported as Trigona tomentosa ) ( Hymenoptera : Apidae ) ( Evans 1963); Australia, State of Queensland, on flowers of Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco ( Ericales : Myrsinaceae ) and on Apis mellifera L. ( Hymenoptera : Apiade) ( Seeman and Walter 1995; Halliday 1997; Walter et al. 2002; Di Palma et al. 2017); China, Shanghai, on honey bees ( Luo et al. 2010); Taiwan, on Apis merlifera ( Ho et al. 2010) ; Democratic Republic of Congo, on Chlorion ciliatum ( Hymenoptera : Sphecidae ) ( Elsen 1972b); Hawaii ( United States of America ), on Achaea janata L. ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), on Hawaiian bees and Ohi'a trees ( Metrosideros polymorpha Gaudich. ) ( Myrtales : Myrtaceae ) ( Prasad 1968, Daly and Coville 1982; Tenorio et al. 1985; Goff 1987; Sabina et al. 2001); Hong Kong, on Delias agalia (L.) ( Lepidoptera : Pieridae ) ( Treat 1975); India, State of Tamil Nadu, on honey bee, and on mangrove flowers ( Ramanan and Ghai 1984); Jammu and Kashmir, on honey bee ( Putatunda et al. 2001); Madagascar, on unidentified butterfly ( Lepidoptera ) ( Haitlinger 1987b); Papua New Guinea, on little red lory ( Charmosyna pulchella Gray ) ( Psittaciformes : Psittacidae ), on Apis mellifera ( Clinch 1979; Domrow 1979); Turkey, on honey bee ( Selçuk and Aydin 2013); Vietnam, on butterflies and scarabaeid beetles ( Haitlinger 1987a); Europe (country not mentioned), on honey bees ( Apis spp. ) ( De Jong et al. 1982).