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APPENDIX 1 in The Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apiformes) of the Democratic Republic of Congo curated at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Belgium)

  • 1. Agroecology Lab, Brussels Bioengineering School, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, B- 1050 Brussels, Belgium & Ecology, Restoration Ecology and Landscape, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université de Lubumbashi (UNILU), Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), O. D. Taxonomy & Phylogeny, Rue Vautier 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium alain. pauly 54 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9030 - 9786
  • 3. Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Biology Department, Entomology Section, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium achik. dorchin @ africamuseum. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1151 - 5926 & University of Mons, Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, Place du parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium * Corresponding authors: alain. tshibungu. nkulu @ ulb. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3747 - 3456 Phone number: + 243.814.74.52.56 nicolas. vereecken @ ulb. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8858 - 4623 Phone number: + 32.473.60.35.63
  • 4. Agroecology Lab, Brussels Bioengineering School, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, B- 1050 Brussels, Belgium

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APPENDIX 1. DRC bee endemism by province. The province of Haut-Katanga shows the highest level of endemism. The figures in square brackets indicate the number of specimens curated at the RMCA for the corresponding endemic species.

Num.ProvincesEndemism species richnessSpecies [#Specimens in RMCA]
1Haut-Katanga (Latitude: 7° – 13°S; Longitude: 25° – 29° E)7Megachile (Creightonella) paracantha (Pasteels, 1965) [1]; Megachile (Eutricharaea) paupera Pasteels, 1965 [0]; Megachile (Megella) exsecta Pasteels, 1965 [0]; Megachile (Pseudomegachile) cupreohirta Cockerell, 1933 [0]; Megachile (Pseudomegachile) parabukamensis (Pasteels, 1965) [0]; Megachile (Eurymella) bredoi Cockerell, 1935 [4]; Osmia reginae Cockerell, 1932 [1]
2Equateur (Latitude: 1°S – 2°N; Longitude: 16° – 20° E)3Megachile (Callomegachile) ambigua (Pasteels, 1965) [1]; Megachile (Anodonteutricharaea) maculosella Pasteels, 1965 [1]; Megachile chapini (Cockerell, 1935) [0]
3Bas-Uele (Latitude: 2° – 5°N; Longitude: 22° – 27° E)2Megachile (Callomegachile) punctolineata Cockerell, 1935 [0]; Megachile (Stellenigris) vandeveldii (Meunier, 1888) [0]
4Maniema (Latitude: 0° – 4°S; Longitude: 25° – 29° E)2Heriades (Heriades) burgeoni Benoist, 1931 [0]; Megachile (Anodonteutricharaea) pinguicula Pasteels, 1966 [0]
5Haut-Uele (Latitude: 1° – 5°N; Longitude: 27° – 30° E)1Megachile (Anodonteutricharaea) pinguicula Pasteels, 1965 [0]
6Lualaba (Latitude: 7° – 11°S; Longitude: 21° – 27° E)1Megachile (Eutricharaea) ornithica Cockerell, 1937 [0]
7Sankuru (Latitude: 1° – 5°S; Longitude: 22° – 24° E)1Megachile (Creightonella) ruda (Pasteels, 1965) [0]
8Sud-Ubangi (Latitude: 2° – 4°S; Longitude: 18° – 20° E)1Megachile (Creightonella) ruda (Pasteels, 1965) [0]

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Published as part of Nkulu, Alain Tshibungu, Pauly, Alain, Dorchin, Achik & Vereecken, Nicolas J., 2023, The Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apiformes) of the Democratic Republic of Congo curated at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Belgium), pp. 99 in Zootaxa 5392 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5392.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10435063

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