Family Apidae - Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees
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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes Includes species formerly treated as the Anthophoridae Numbers 3 subfamilies, with ~1,000 spp. in 50 genera in our area and ~5,750 spp. in >200 genera worldwide (1)
Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide)
Family Apidae
Tribe Eucerini *Agapanthinus, Cemolobus, Eucera (subg. Synhalonia), Florilegus (subg. Florilegus), Gaesischia (subg. Gaesischiana), Martinapis (subg. Martinapis), Melissodes (subg. Apomelissodes, Callimelissodes, Eumelissodes, Heliomelissodes, Melissodes, *Psilomelissodes, *Tachymelissodes), Melissoptila, Peponapis (subg. *Eopeponapis, Peponapis, *Xenopeponapis, *Xeropeponapis), Simanthedon, Svastra (subg. Anthedonia, Brachymelissodes, Epimelissodes, Idiomelissodes), Syntrichalonia, Tetraloniella (subg. *Pectinapis, Tetraloniella), Xenoglossa (subg. Eoxenoglossa, Xenoglossa)
Tribe Epeolini Subtribe Epeolina: Epeolus; Subtribe *Odyneropsina: *Odyneropsis (subg. *Odyneropsis); Subtribe Thalestriina: Triepeolus
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