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Table III

Importance of recent taxonomic revisions in the estimation of bee biodiversity in North-West-Palaeartic and Afrotropical regions.

Taxon SR before New species Proportion of recent Major reference
revision described new species in SR
West-Palaearctic
Camptopoeum 26 3 10.3 Patiny (1999b, 2001)
Clavipanurgus 8 2 20.0 Patiny (1999b, 2001)
Dasypoda 23 6 20.7 Michez et al. (2004)
Eremaphanta 7 1 12.5 Michez and Patiny (2006)
Flavomelitturgula 4 2 33.3 Patiny (1999a, 2001); Patiny and Gaspar (2000)
Flavipanurgus 5 1 16.6 Patiny (1999b, 2001)
Melitta 16 1 5.8 Michez and Eardley (2007)
Melitturga 10 1 9.1 Patiny (1999a, 2001), Patiny and Gaspar (2000)
Panurgus 32 2 5.8 Patiny (1999b, 2001)
Systropha 8 1 11.1 Patiny and Michez (2006)
Africa
Capicola 7 6 46.0 Michez et al .(2007)
Melitta 3 3 50.0 Eardley and Kuhlmann (2006)
Nomioinae 26 7 21.0 Pesenko and Pauly (2005)
Samba 5 4 44.4 Michez et al .(unpubl. data)
Scrapter 36 11 23.0 Davies and Brothers (2006), Davies et al. (2005)
Rediviva 10 14 58.0 Whitehead and Steiner (2001),Whitehead et al. (2008)