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Genus Calliopsis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Internet References
Calliopsis (Nomadopsis) - Calliopsis - female Bee - Calliopsis - male Orange County Bees & Wasps #136 - Calliopsis - male Nix Bees & Wasps #12 - Calliopsis - male Small bee searches for mate - Calliopsis - male Calliopsis (Nomadopsis) puellae - Calliopsis - male - female Bee with gray thorax on encelia - Calliopsis Mining Bee, Calliopsis sp. - Calliopsis
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 Andrenidae (Mining Bees)
Subfamily Panurginae
Genus Calliopsis
Explanation of Names
Author: Smith.
Numbers
Nearctica lists 70 species.
Range
Nearctic and Neotropic.
Remarks
There are four distinctive subgenera associated with four families of plants: Leguminosae, Euphorbiaceae, Compositae and Verbenaceae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Internet References
Discover Life
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 19 August, 2005 - 8:22am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 31 March, 2009 - 7:58am

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