Hosts, foraging behaviour and distribution of six species of cleptoparasitic bees of the subfamily Anthophorinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Records of new hosts, cleptoparasitic accounts, their behaviour near host's nests and plants visited by the following cleptoparasitic species of bees of the subfamily Anthophorinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Ammobates punctatus (Fabricius, 1804), Biastes emarginatus Schenck, 1853, Epeoloides coecutiens (Fabricius, 1775), Epeolus schummeli Schilling, 1849, E. variegatus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Nomada lathburiana (Kirby, 1802) are presented. A new host species, Macropis fulvipes (Fabricius, 1804) for the cleptoparasite Epeoloides coecutiens (Fabricius, 1775) is recorded.