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

• Annalie Melin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: annalie.melin@gmail.com

  Affiliations Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3393-1701

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• Harald W. Krenn,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Science, Vienna, Austria

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• Rauri C. K. Bowie,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Colin M. Beale,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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• John C. Manning,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont, South Africa, Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Scottsville, South Africa

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• Jonathan F. Colville

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa

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