Lipotriches Explained

In biology, Lipotriches is a large genus of sweat bees in the family Halictidae, distributed widely throughout the Eastern Hemisphere though absent from Europe. There are nearly 200 species in 9 subgenera. They commonly have prominent bands of hair on the margins of the metasomal segments.

Description and biology

Members of this genus are important pollinators of plants, especially grasses, in fact 5 species of this genus from South Africa are recorded to gather grass pollen, with four doing so exclusively.^[1] They often have more slender bodies relative to other nomiine bees.

Species

• Lipotriches ablusa (Cockerell, 1931)
• Lipotriches acaciae (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches adelaidella (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches aenea (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches aenescens (Friese, 1912)
• Lipotriches aerata (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches alberti (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches albitarsis (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches alboscopacea (Friese, 1917)
• Lipotriches alternata (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches amatha (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches analis (Friese, 1924)
• Lipotriches analis (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches andrei (Vachal, 1897)
• Lipotriches antennata (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches apicata (Cockerell, 1936)
• Lipotriches argentifrons (Smith, 1862)
• Lipotriches armatipes (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches armatula (Dalla Torre, 1896)
• Lipotriches arnoldi (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches aurata (Bingham, 1897)
• Lipotriches aureohirta (Cameron, 1898)
• Lipotriches aureotecta (Cockerell, 1931)
• Lipotriches aurifrons (Smith, 1853)
• Lipotriches austella (Hirashima, 1978)
• Lipotriches australica (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches azarensis (Cockerell, 1932)
• Lipotriches babindensis (Cockerell, 1930)
• Lipotriches bantarica (Cockerell, 1919)
• Lipotriches basipicta (Wickwar, 1908)
• Lipotriches bechuanella (Cockerell, 1939)
• Lipotriches bequaertiella (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches betsilei (Saussure, 1890)
• Lipotriches bicarinata (Cameron, 1903)
• Lipotriches bigibba (Saussure, 1890)
• Lipotriches blandula (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches bombayensis (Cameron, 1908)
• Lipotriches brachysoma (Schletterer, 1891)
• Lipotriches brevipennis (Friese, 1915)
• Lipotriches brisbanensis (Cockerell, 1913)
• Lipotriches brooksi (Pauly, 1991)
• Lipotriches burmica (Cockerell, 1920)
• Lipotriches ceratina (Smith, 1857)
• Lipotriches cheesmanae (Michener, 1965)
• Lipotriches chilwensis (Cockerell, 1939)
• Lipotriches cincticauda (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches cinerascens (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches circumnitens (Cockerell, 1946)
• Lipotriches cirrita (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches clavata (Smith, 1853)
• Lipotriches clavicornis (Warncke, 1980)
• Lipotriches clavisetis (Vachal, 1910)
• Lipotriches clypeata (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches collaris (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches crassula (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches cribrosa (Spinola, 1843)
• Lipotriches crocodilensis (Pauly, 1990)
• Lipotriches cubitalis (Vachal, 1897)
• Lipotriches cyanella (Cockerell, 1913)
• Lipotriches dentipes (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches dentiventris (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches derema (Strand, 1914)
• Lipotriches desolata (Cockerell, 1941)
• Lipotriches digitata (Friese, 1909)
• Lipotriches dimissa (Cockerell, 1921)
• Lipotriches doddii (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches dominarum (Cockerell, 1932)
• Lipotriches echinata (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches edirisinghei Pauly, 2006
• Lipotriches elongata (Friese, 1914)
• Lipotriches elongatula (Cockerell, 1915)
• Lipotriches erimae (Friese, 1909)
• Lipotriches esakii (Hirashima, 1961)
• Lipotriches ethioparca (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches exagens (Walker, 1860)
• Lipotriches excellens (Cockerell, 1929)
• Lipotriches femorata (Friese, 1936)
• Lipotriches ferricauda (Cockerell, 1913)
• Lipotriches fervida (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches fimbriata (Vachal, 1897)
• Lipotriches flavitarsis (Friese, 1909)
• Lipotriches flavoviridis (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches floralis (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches fortior (Cockerell, 1929)
• Lipotriches frenchi (Cockerell, 1912)
• Lipotriches friesei (Magretti, 1899)
• Lipotriches fruhstorferi (Pérez, 1905)
• Lipotriches fulvinerva (Cameron, 1907)
• Lipotriches fulvohirta (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches fumipennis (Pauly, 2001)
• Lipotriches generosa (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches geophila (Cockerell, 1930)
• Lipotriches gilberti (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches goniognatha (Cockerell, 1919)
• Lipotriches gracilipes (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches gratiosa (Friese, 1914)
• Lipotriches grisella (Cockerell, 1913)
• Lipotriches (Lipotriches) guihongi (Zhang et al, 2022)^[2]
• Lipotriches guineensis (Strand, 1912)
• Lipotriches guluensis (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches halictella (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches hippophila (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches hirsutissima (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches hirsutula (Cockerell, 1947)
• Lipotriches hylaeoides (Gerstäcker, 1857)
• Lipotriches hypodonta (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches inaequalis (Cockerell, 1931)
• Lipotriches inamoena (Benoist, 1950)
• Lipotriches jacobsoni (Friese, 1914)
• Lipotriches johannis (Cockerell, 1946)
• Lipotriches kabindana (Strand, 1920)
• Lipotriches kamerunensis (Friese, 1916)
• Lipotriches kampalana (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches kangrae (Nurse, 1904)
• Lipotriches kankauana (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches kasoutina (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches katonana (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches kondeana (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches krombeini (Hirashima, 1978)
• Lipotriches kurandina (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches lactinea (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches lamellicornis (Friese, 1911)
• Lipotriches langi (Cockerell, 1932)
• Lipotriches latetibialis (Friese, 1924)
• Lipotriches latifacies (Strand, 1911)
• Lipotriches lautula (Cockerell, 1919)
• Lipotriches leucomelanura (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches ligata (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches lubumbashica (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches lucidula (Vachal, 1910)
• Lipotriches luridipes (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches maai (Michener, 1965)
• Lipotriches macropus (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches magniventris (Friese, 1914)
• Lipotriches makomensis (Strand, 1912)
• Lipotriches meadewaldoi (Brauns, 1912)
• Lipotriches medani (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches media (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches mediorufa (Cockerell, 1912)
• Lipotriches melanodonta (Cockerell, 1926)
• Lipotriches melanoptera (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches melanosoma (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches melvilliana (Cockerell, 1929)
• Lipotriches minuta (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches minutula (Friese, 1909)
• Lipotriches miranda (Rayment, 1954)
• Lipotriches modesta (Smith, 1862)
• Lipotriches moerens (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches mollis (Smith, 1879)
• Lipotriches montana (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches montana (Ebmer, 1978)
• Lipotriches morata (Cockerell, 1920)
• Lipotriches mozambensis (Pauly, 2003)
• Lipotriches muscosa (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches musgravei (Cockerell, 1929)
• Lipotriches nana (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches (Maynenomia) nanensis (Cockerell, 1929)
• Lipotriches natalensis (Cockerell, 1916)
• Lipotriches negligenda (Dalla Torre, 1896)
• Lipotriches nigra (Wu, 1985)
• Lipotriches nitidibasis (Cockerell, 1920)
• Lipotriches notabilis (Schletterer, 1891)
• Lipotriches notiomorpha (Hirashima, 1978)
• Lipotriches nubecula (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches nubilosa (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches nuda (Rayment, 1939)
• Lipotriches oberthuerella (Saussure, 1890)
• Lipotriches obscura (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches odontostoma (Cockerell, 1941)
• Lipotriches opacibasis (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches orientalis (Friese, 1909)
• Lipotriches pachypoda (Cockerell, 1920)
• Lipotriches palavanica (Cockerell, 1915)
• Lipotriches pallidibasis (Cockerell, 1936)
• Lipotriches pallidicincta (Cockerell, 1932)
• Lipotriches pallidiventer (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches panganina (Strand, 1911)
• Lipotriches parca (Kohl, 1906)
• Lipotriches patellifera (Westwood, 1875)
• Lipotriches pennata (Friese, 1924)
• Lipotriches perlucida (Cockerell, 1911)
• Lipotriches petterssoni (Pauly, 1991)
• Lipotriches phanerura (Cockerell, 1913)
• Lipotriches phenacura (Cockerell, 1911)
• Lipotriches philippinensis (Cockerell, 1915)
• Lipotriches picardi (Gribodo, 1894)
• Lipotriches pilipes (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches platycephala (Cockerell, 1917)
• Lipotriches pristis (Vachal, 1903)
• Lipotriches pseudohalictella (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches pulchricornis (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches pulchriventris (Cameron, 1897)
• Lipotriches purnongensis (Cockerell, 1913)
• Lipotriches quartinae (Gribodo, 1884)
• Lipotriches raialii (Pauly, 2001)
• Lipotriches rainandriamampandryi (Pauly, 2001)
• Lipotriches ranomafanae (Pauly, 2001)
• Lipotriches reginae (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches regis (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches reichardia (Strand, 1911)
• Lipotriches rubella (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches rufipes (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches rufocognita (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches rugicollis (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches rustica (Westwood, 1875)
• Lipotriches ruwenzorica (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches sanguinolenta (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches sansibarica (Strand, 1912)
• Lipotriches satelles (Cockerell, 1912)
• Lipotriches saussurei (Friese, 1902)
• Lipotriches schroederi (Strand, 1914)
• Lipotriches scutellata (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches semiaurea (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches semihirta (Cockerell, 1932)
• Lipotriches semipallida (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches senegalicola (Strand, 1912)
• Lipotriches setulosa (Benoist, 1962)
• Lipotriches shanganiensis (Cockerell, 1935)
• Lipotriches sicheli (Vachal, 1897)
• Lipotriches sikorai (Pauly, 1991)
• Lipotriches sjoestedti (Friese, 1909)
• Lipotriches smaragdula (Pauly, 1984)
• Lipotriches speciosana (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches speculina (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches sphecodoides (Pauly, 1991)
• Lipotriches spinulifera (Cockerell, 1933)
• Lipotriches stalkeri (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches stordyi (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches subarmata (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches subaustralica (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches sublucens (Cockerell, 1939)
• Lipotriches submoerens (Cockerell, 1914)
• Lipotriches subnitida (Benoist, 1964)
• Lipotriches swalei (Cockerell, 1939)
• Lipotriches tampoloensis (Pauly, 1991)
• Lipotriches tanganyicensis (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches tenuihirta (Cockerell, 1905)
• Lipotriches testacea (Strand, 1913)
• Lipotriches testaceipes (Friese, 1924)
• Lipotriches tetraloniformis (Strand, 1912)
• Lipotriches thor (Cockerell, 1930)
• Lipotriches torrida (Smith, 1879)
• Lipotriches tridentata (Smith, 1875)
• Lipotriches triodonta (Kohl, 1906)
• Lipotriches tristemmae (Pauly, 2001)
• Lipotriches trochanterica (Friese, 1908)
• Lipotriches tuckeri (Friese, 1930)
• Lipotriches tulearensis (Benoist, 1962)
• Lipotriches turneri (Friese, 1924)
• Lipotriches ulongensis (Cockerell, 1929)
• Lipotriches umbiloensis (Cockerell, 1916)
• Lipotriches ustula (Cockerell, 1911)
• Lipotriches vicina (Stadelmann, 1897)
• Lipotriches viciniformis (Cockerell, 1939)
• Lipotriches victoriae (Cockerell, 1910)
• Lipotriches voeltzkowi (Friese, 1907)
• Lipotriches vulpina (Gerstäcker, 1857)
• Lipotriches welwitschi (Cockerell, 1908)
• Lipotriches whitfieldi (Cockerell, 1942)
• Lipotriches willeyi (Cameron, 1905)
• Lipotriches williamsi (Cockerell, 1930)
• Lipotriches yapiensis (Cockerell, 1943)
• Lipotriches yasumatsui (Hirashima, 1961)^[3]
• Lipotriches yunnanensis (He & Wu, 1985)
• Lipotriches zuala (Strand, 1911)

Notes and References

1. Immelman . Kathleen . Eardley . Connal . 2008-04-22 . Gathering of grass pollen by solitary bees (Halictidae, Lipotriches) in South Africa . Zoosystematics and Evolution . en . 76 . 2 . 263–268 . 10.1002/mmnz.20000760208.
2. Zhang . Dan . Niu . Ze-Qing . Pauly . Alain . Da . Wa . Zhu . Chao-Dong . 2022-03-24 . A new species and a newly recorded subgenus of Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae, Nomiinae) from China . ZooKeys . 1090 . 103–111 . 10.3897/zookeys.1090.75872 . 35586843 . 8971123 . 1313-2970. free . 2022ZooK.1090..103Z .
3. Abdul Hannan . Md. . Maeta . Yasuo . Miyanaga . Ryôichi . 2013-06-01 . Nesting biology and life cycle of Nomia (Acunomia) chalybeata Smith on Iriomote Island, southernmost Archipelago of Japan, with notes on the simultaneous occurrence of diapausing and non-diapausing prepupae within the same nests (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) . Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences . en . 12 . 2 . 91–99 . 10.1016/j.jssas.2012.08.002 . 1658-077X. free .