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Sphecodopsis
''Sphecodopsis'' is a genus of cleptoparasitic "cuckoo" bees in the family Apidae. Endemic to southern Africa, the wasp-like bees of this genus are generally small, varying from in length, and mostly black, with orange-ish or reddish colouring of the metasoma in some of the species. The bee genus ''Scrapter'' is recognised as a host for the cleptoparasitic life cycle of some ''Sphecodopsis'', but further data regarding preferred hosts is not available for most of the species.〔〔〔
==Taxonomy==
German entomologist Hans Bischoff first described the genus in 1923 in the work "Kenntnis afrikanischer Schmarotzerbienen", published in the ''Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift''. The genus name is Greek for "wasp-like", with "spheco-" meaning wasp.
Of the fourteen currently recognised species, several of them were originally described under a different genus and have subsequently been included in ''Sphecodopsis''. Some of the species in the genus are generally still poorly defined, owing to the lack of collection and study of specimens of both sexes.〔
The type species assigned to ''Sphecodopsis'' by Bischoff is ''S. capicola'', originally designated ''Omachthes capicola'' in 1911 by Embrik Strand.〔
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