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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Melittid Bees (Melittidae)

Family Melittidae - Melittid Bees

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Green-eyed (Melittid) bee - Hesperapis Hesperapis - female Two Desert Bees - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis --Melittidae? - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis possibly fulvipes? - Hesperapis Hesperapis sp? - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis sp - Hesperapis Bee on tiny poppy - Hesperapis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Melittidae (Melittid Bees)
Other Common Names
Melittids
Numbers
15 genera listed at Discover Life (worldwide).
3 genera listed at Nomina-Nearctica
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Discover Life
ITIS
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Valdosta University
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 15 May, 2008 - 9:54pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 7 June, 2008 - 5:49pm

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