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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Anthophorine Bees (Anthophorini) » Habropoda

Genus Habropoda

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Anthophorini (Anthophorine Bees)
Genus Habropoda
Explanation of Names
Author: Fabricius 1804
Numbers
16 spp. in our area, 55 spp. worldwide(1)
Identification
Some diagnostic characters of this genus (per J.S. Ascher): elongate marginal cell, extending far beyond the submarginal cells, and the third submarginal cell narrowed anteriorly.
Because of the close similarity to many Anthophora, "the generic characters of wing venation mentioned in couplet 1 of the key to genera of Anthophorini must be examined in order to place specimens to genus correctly."(2)
One clear difference: in Habropoda the first recurrent vein terminates at or near the apex of the second submarginal cell, whereas in Anthophora the first recurrent vein meets the second submarginal cell near the middle.
Range
holarctic + some Oriental; in our area, New England to sw. Canada to Mexico (map)(1)
Works Cited
1.Apoidea (Bees; Sphecoid wasps) on discoverlife.org
2.The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
By Charles D. Michener
Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 12 May, 2006 - 6:08am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Hartmut Wisch, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 14 November, 2011 - 8:32am

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