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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 » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae)

Family Apidae - Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Bumble Bee and Dandelion - Bombus insularis

Hymenoptera help #1 please - Xylocopa virginica - female

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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Includes species formerly treated as the Anthophoridae.

Identification

Overview of Genera of Apidae

Subfamily Apinae - Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees

Tribe Anthophorini - Anthophorine Bees

Genus Anthophora

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Genus Habropoda

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Tribe Apini - Honey Bees

Genus Apis

Worker

Drone

Tribe Bombini - Bumble Bees

Genus Bombus - Bumble Bees

Tribe Centridini

Genus Centris

Tribe Emphorini

Genus Diadasia

Genus Ptilothrix

Tribe Eucerini - Long-horned bees

Genus Eucera

Genus Melissodes

Genus Peponapis - Squash bee

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Genus Svastra

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Genus Tetraloniella

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Genus Xenoglossa - Large Squash Bee

Tribe Euglossini - Orchid Bees

Genus Euglossa - Orchid Bees

Tribe Exomalopsini

Genus Anthophorula

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Genus Exomalopsis

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Tribe Melectini

Genus Melecta

Genus Xeromelecta

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Genus Zacosmia

Subfamily Nomadinae - Cuckoo Bees

Genus Holcopasites

Genus Nomada

Tribe Epeolini

Genus Doeringiella

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Genus Epeolus

Genus Ericrocis

Genus Triepeolus

Tribe Neolarrini

Genus Neolarra

Subfamily Xylocopinae - Carpenter Bees

Genus Ceratina - Small Carpenter Bees

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Genus Xylocopa - Large Carpenter Bees

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Remarks

This family includes the honey bee (not native to this country; it was brought by European settlers and nowadays there are feral bees as well as domestic ones), bumble bees (about 46 species in the US), carpenter bees (about 8 species), digger bees (about 60 species, mostly in the West) and cuckoo bees.

Print References

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Internet References

Bees of Florida

University of Florida

Discover Life

Guide to Bee Genera within Apidae of Eastern North America, Part 1

Guide to the Bee Genera within Apidae of Eastern North America, Part 2

Works Cited

1.	A Field Guide to Insects By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson

2.	The Bees of the World, 2nd edition By Charles D. Michener

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 29 March, 2004 - 9:54pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Joel Kits, Jay Barnes, Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2009 - 7:18pm

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