Weissmann Julie A, Picanço Ana, Borges Paulo A V, Schaefer Hanno
Technical University of Munich, Dept. Ecology & Ecosystem Management, Plant Biodiversity Research, Emil-Ramann Str. 2, D-85354 Freising, Germany.
CE3C - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and University of Azores, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Rua Capitão João d´Ávila, Pico da Urze, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal.
Zookeys. 2017 Jan 3(642):63-95. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.642.10773. eCollection 2017.
We report 18 species of wild bees plus the domesticated honeybee from the Azores, which adds nine species to earlier lists. One species, , seems to be a single island endemic, and three species are possibly native (, , and ). All the remaining bee species are most likely accidental introductions that arrived after human colonization of the archipelago in the 15 century. Bee diversity in the Azores is similar to bee diversity of Madeira and Cape Verde but nearly ten times lower than it is in the Canary Islands.
我们报告了来自亚速尔群岛的18种野生蜜蜂以及家养蜜蜂,这比之前的列表增加了9种。有一种蜜蜂似乎是单一岛屿特有种,还有三种可能是本土物种(、和)。其余所有蜜蜂物种很可能是15世纪该群岛被人类殖民后偶然引入的。亚速尔群岛的蜜蜂多样性与马德拉群岛和佛得角的蜜蜂多样性相似,但比加那利群岛的低近十倍。