Oil flowers and related oil-collecting bees: a 50-year timeline of knowledge and future directions

LT Carneiro, IC Machado - Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2023‏ - Springer
Fifty years have passed since the first descriptions of the “floral oil syndrome” by Stefan
Vogel. Over those past decades, substantial knowledge was obtained mainly on the …

Long-legged bees make adaptive leaps: linking adaptation to coevolution in a plant–pollinator network

A Pauw, B Kahnt, M Kuhlmann… - … of the Royal …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adaptation is evolution in response to natural selection. Hence, an adaptation is expected to
originate simultaneously with the acquisition of a particular selective environment. Here we …

Opening the door to the past: accessing phylogenetic, pathogen, and population data from museum curated bees

AD Vaudo, ML Fritz… - Insect Systematics and …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Tens of thousands of insects are deposited in collections every year as a result of survey-
based studies that aim to investigate ecological questions. DNA-based techniques can …

Organ-specific volatiles from Sonoran desert Krameria flowers as potential signals for oil-collecting bees

MS Balbuena, SL Buchmann, DR Papaj, RA Raguso - Phytochemistry, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The evolution of flowers that offer oils as rewards and are pollinated by specialized bees
represents a distinctive theme in plant-pollinator co-diversification. Some plants that offer …

Small and genetically highly structured populations in a long-legged bee, Rediviva longimanus, as inferred by pooled RAD-seq

B Kahnt, P Theodorou, A Soro, H Hollens-Kuhr… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018‏ - Springer
Adaptation to local host plants may impact a pollinator's population genetic structure by
reducing gene flow and driving population genetic differentiation, representing an early …

Should I stay or should I go? Pollinator shifts rather than cospeciation dominate the evolutionary history of South African Rediviva bees and their Diascia host plants

B Kahnt, WN Hattingh, P Theodorou… - Molecular …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant–pollinator interactions are often highly specialised, which may be a consequence of
co‐evolution. Yet when plants and pollinators co‐evolve, it is not clear if this will also result …

[PDF][PDF] The male of Rediviva (Redivivoides) kamieskroonensis (KUHLMANN, 2012)(Hymenoptera, Melittidae), with an updated key and additional records of the …

M KUHLMANN - Linzer biol. Beitr, 2024‏ - researchgate.net
The male of the South African bee Rediviva (Redivivoides) kamieskroonensis (KUHLMANN,
2012) is here described and illustrated for the first time. An updated key for the identification …

The allometry of proboscis length in Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidae) and an estimate of their foraging distance using museum collections

A Melin, HW Krenn, RCK Bowie, CM Beale… - PLoS …, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
An appreciation of body size allometry is central for understanding insect pollination
ecology. A recent model utilises allometric coefficients for five of the seven extant bee …

Allometric relationships shape foreleg evolution of long-legged oil bees (Melittidae: Rediviva)

A Melin, R Altwegg, JC Manning, JF Colville - Evolution, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Exaggerated traits of pollinators have fascinated biologists for centuries. To understand their
evolution, and their role in coevolutionary relationships, an essential first step is to …

[PDF][PDF] Subgeneric classification of the bee genus Rediviva Friese (Hymenoptera: Apiformes: Melittidae)

M Kuhlmann, LS Jürgensen, D Michez - Zootaxa, 2020‏ - orbi.umons.ac.be
For the first time a subgeneric classification of the oil-collecting bee genus Rediviva is
presented. Five subgenera comprising 33 species are recognized based on morphological …