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Tribe Hesperapini

Bee - Hesperapis - female Hesperapis - female Hesperapis --Melittidae? - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis? On Desert Rock Nettle Flower - Hesperapis Hesperapis? - Hesperapis Small, Skinny Bee- Shell Creek Road - Hesperapis Small bee - Hesperapis regularis Lasioglossum? - Hesperapis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)
Family Melittidae (Melittid Bees)
Subfamily Dasypodainae
Tribe Hesperapini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Subtribe Hesperapina Ascher and Engel, 2005, of Dasypodaini, was elevated to tribal rank by Michez, Patiny, and Danforth, 2009, Systematic Entomology (2009), 34, 574–597.
Numbers
24 spp. in a single genus in our area, 46 spp. in 2 genera worldwide(1)