Anthophila (bee) checklists wiki

[egordon88]

Key: Parentheses: species, I: incomplete, asterisk = iNaturalist observations contributed new records.

Africa

• Burundi (72, I)

• Cape Verde (21; I)

• Central African Republic (55, I)

• Chad (38, I)

• Comoros (21, I)

• Cote D’ivoire (Ivory Coast) (65, I)

• Djibouti (18, I) [1]

• Eswatini (Swaziland) (17)*

• Equatorial Guinea

• Boiko (2)

• Guinea-Bissau (8)

• Mauritius (12, I)*

• Mayotte (3)

• Réunion (7, I)

• Rodrigues (3)

• Senegal (92, I)

• Seychelles (16, I)

• Aldabra Atoll (8, I)

• Socotra (6, I)

• Somalia (73, I)

Asia

• Bahrain (4, I)*

• Bangladesh (26, I)*

• Bhutan (50, I)*

• Borneo (31, I)*

• Cambodia (45, I)*

• Christmas Island (6)*

• China: Macao (26)*

• India (412 of 723, I)

• Laos (105, I)*

• Maldives (8)*

• North Korea (91, I)

• Philippines (109, I)

• Qatar (8)*

• Singapore (107, I)*

• Timor-Leste (15; I)* [1]

• Turkestan (17, I)

• Vietnam (98; I)*

Central America

• Guatemala (254, I)

Europe

• Andorra (23, I)*

• Kingdom of Denmark: Faroe Islands (6)*

• Gibraltar (2)

• Iceland (6)

• Ireland (104, I)

• Monaco (3)*

• Portugal

• Azores (18, I)* [1]

• Russia (1139 of 1195)

• San Marino (4)*

North America

• Anguilla (7, I)

• Antigua and Barbuda (3)

• Aruba (2)

• Bahamas (36, I)

• Barbados (8, I)

• Bermuda (3, I)

• British Virgin Islands (15, I)

• Canada (~858, I)* [1,2]

• • British Columbia (429)* [1]
• • Manitoba (392) [1]

• Cayman Islands (4, I)*

• Cuba (70, I)

• Dominica (26, I)

• Dominican Republic (54, I)*

• Grenada (12, I)

• Greenland (2)*

• Guadeloupe (14)

• Haiti (36)*

• Jamaica (50, I)

• Martinique (12)

• Mexico (1774, I)

• Puerto Rico (37, I)

• Saint Kitts and Nevis (6)*

• Saint Lucia (5)

• US Virgin Islands: St. John (6, I)*

• United States (3359, I)* [1]

• • Indiana (266; 1)
• • Maine (281, need review) [1]
• • New Hampshire (279; 1)
• • New York (437, I)
• • Pennsylvania (436)
• • Western states (incomplete): AZ-CA-CO-ID-MT-NM-NV-OR-UT-WA-WY; 1
• • Central states (incomplete): AR-IA-IL-IN-KS-KY-MI-MN-MO-ND-NE-OH-OK-SD-TN-TX-WI; 1

Oceania

• Australia (627 out of 1646)

• Cook Islands (4)

• French Polynesia (12, I) [1]

• Fiji (13 of 23, I)

• Guam (10)*

• Hawaii [1,2] (80, I)

• Howland Island (2)

• Kiribati (7)

• Marshall Islands (2)

• Montserrat (11)

• Nauru (1)

• New Caledonia (32, I)

• New Guinea (14, I)*

• Northern Mariana Islands (12)*

• Mariana Islands: Rota (7, I)*

• Palau (11, I)

• Samoa (16, I)

• Tonga (5)*

• Tuvalu (2)

• Vanuatu (16, 1)

South America

• Aruba (2)

• Curaçao (4)*

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Additional information

How to create checklists (examples in links)

• Find sources, and add any additional species observed on iNat or Bug Guide. In Explore, search location and taxon, and click Species to see observed taxa.

• Go to Places, search location, and click View checklist page on bottom left.

• Method 1: Search taxon on middle right. Paste species into Add Species or Batch (easiest if from an Excel column which only contains Genus species). Add subspecies if known.

• Method 2: Create a new checklist (bottom right). Name it in format “Bees of California.” Add species in same way.

• If known, set species as native, introduced, or endemic.

How to use checklists

• Search location in Identify, click Suggestions, and filter by State or country, genus, and checklist to show all species including ones without obs.

• Go to Map on a species taxon page. The shaded regions show where species have been recorded in a checklist but never observed on iNat.

Sources for creating new checklists

• US: IL, LA, MI, PA, WI, US specialists only, split in 3 regions

• Georgia (country)

• Europa Island - Place needs to be created, full checklist

• iNat bee and wasp Guides (verify if these are complete) 1, 2

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Wasp checklists here

[bobmcd]

More work needed here too, gang.

[jasonhernandez74]

@egordon88

Europa Island - Place needs to be created, full checklist

Wow. An obscure atoll in the Mozambique Channel has a complete checklist, whereas populous, well-studied countries do not.

[bobmcd]

Sometimes it is nice not to be distracted.

[egordon88]

Much easier to completely survey an atoll. Not much funding for invertebrate work, even in wealthy countries.

“Backboned animals, particularly charismatic mammals, tend to attract more research funding than insects. A European research project looking at a vertebrate species, for example, receives nearly 500 times more funding on average than an invertebrate study.” The collapse of insects (reuters.com)

[bobmcd]

And that place only has 2 species. So far my yard has 34 bee species.

[egordon88]

And my yard ~88 … it’s frustrating when people quote the number of bee species in western US states despite actual checklists. Where’s the list of California’s 1500?!

[bobmcd]

88… I’m in awe
I think on that Atoll one would get to know each individual bee by name.

[egordon88]

I did not realize until today that this Bee Tool has exportable lists (tab 4 of 5 at the bottom) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1izUoiebdxTVMLQdvheh4FRJfr0eh7mJ8/view, so I’m updating a few western states. Got New Mexico to 1057, which is about right. California’s checklist is now 1706 including subspecies!