Subfamily Apinae - Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees

Classification · Remarks · Internet References

Tricolored Bumble Bee - Bombus ternarius

The smaller the flower, the better - Part II - Bombus californicus - female

Bumble bee? on Indian blanket flower - Bombus pensylvanicus

Bumblebee with few hairs on abdomen - Bombus

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)

Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees)

Remarks

This subfamily includes the corbiculate Apidae and has the tribes Emphorini (2), Eucerini (24), Erocrocidini (1), Anthophorini (2), Centradini (2), Bombini (7), and Apini (1). Valdosta U.

Internet References

Cornell U.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 29 March, 2004 - 10:00pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Joel Kits
Last updated 6 January, 2006 - 11:35am

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