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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) » Dasypodainae » Dasypodaini » Hesperapis

Genus Hesperapis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Internet References
Hesperapis - female Two Desert Bees - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis - female Hesperapis --Melittidae? - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis sp - Hesperapis Hesperapis possibly fulvipes? - Hesperapis Hesperapis sp - Hesperapis Hesperapis - Hesperapis - male
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)
Subfamily Dasypodainae
Tribe Dasypodaini
Genus Hesperapis
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Cockerell, 1898.
Numbers
37 species listed at Discover Life, North and Central America and South Africa.
21 species listed at Nomina-Nearctica.
Range
Discover Life Global Map
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Discover Life
ITIS
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 15 May, 2008 - 9:59pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 29 June, 2008 - 5:42pm

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