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Subfamily Apinae - Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees

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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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