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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Fairy Bees and Allies (Panurgini) » Fairy and Goblin Bees (Perditina) » Goblin Bees (Macrotera)

Genus Macrotera - Goblin Bees

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Macrotera Bees on Sphaeralcea - Macrotera latior Mining Bee - Macrotera Macrotera texana Cresson - Macrotera texana Townsendiella? - Macrotera - male Prickly Pear Guests - Macrotera Goblin Bee - Macrotera Unknown Bee - Macrotera
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 Andrenidae (Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees)
Subfamily Panurginae (Panurgine Bees)
Tribe Panurgini (Fairy Bees and Allies)
Subtribe Perditina (Fairy and Goblin Bees)
Genus Macrotera (Goblin Bees)
Explanation of Names
Macrotera Smith 1853
Numbers
4 subgenera, with 23 spp. in our area and 31 spp. total(1)
Subgenera not yet in the guide: Cockerellula • Macroterella: 6 spp., all in our area(1)
Identification
see (2)
Range
w. US and Mexico (map)(1)
Food
Subgenera Cockerellula and Macrotera s.str. feed on Opuntia
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Perdita subgenera Macrotera, Macroteropsis, Macroterella and Cockerellula...
Danforth B.N. 1996. U. Kans. Sci. Bull. 55: 635‒692.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 23 June, 2008 - 8:12pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 5:04pm

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