title: Bees of the Azores: an annotated checklist (Apidae, Hymenoptera).
abstract: We report 18 species of wild bees plus the domesticated honeybee from the Azores, which adds nine species to earlier lists. One species,Hylaeus azorae, seems to be a single island endemic, and three species are possibly native (Colletes eous,Halictus villosulus, andHylaeus pictipes). All the remaining bee species are most likely accidental introductions that arrived after human colonization of the archipelago in the 15thcentury. 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.
authors.affiliation: Technical University of Munich, Dept. Ecology & Ecosystem Management, Plant Biodiversity Research, Emil-Ramann Str. 2, D-85354 Freising, Germany.
authors.forename: Julie A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Weissmann
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Picanço
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Paulo A V
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.affiliation: Technical University of Munich, Dept. Ecology & Ecosystem Management, Plant Biodiversity Research, Emil-Ramann Str. 2, D-85354 Freising, Germany.
authors.forename: Hanno
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schaefer
keywords: Apidae; Azores; Hylaeus azorae; Hymenoptera; pollination