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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Osmia (Osmia Subgenus Osmia)

Subgenus Osmia

Classification · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited
More bees at my bee house - Osmia cornifrons - female Bee - Osmia lignaria - female Mason Bee - Osmia taurus - female Bee - Osmia lignaria - female Bee house, the next generation - Osmia cornifrons - male Blue Orchard Bee - Osmia lignaria - male Metallic green bee - Osmia ribifloris - male Mason Bee - Osmia taurus - male
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 Megachilidae (Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives)
Tribe Osmiini (Mason bees and relatives)
Genus Osmia (Mason Bees)
No Taxon Subgenus Osmia
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, two of them introduced from Asia (O. cornifrons, O. taurus). 25 spp. worldwide(1)
Range
much of NA and the Holarctic in general; two of our spp. (O. cornifrons & O. taurus) are apparently of east Asian origin and occur in e. US; O. lignaria occurs across Canada south to Peru; and O. ribifloris, throughout w. US east to AL in the south into n. Mexico(1)
Print References
key to species (2)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.The systematics and biology of the genus Osmia, subgenera Osmia, Chalcosmia and Cephalosmia
R. W. Rust. 1974. Wasmann Journal of Biology 32(1):1-93.
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 17 March, 2008 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 15 February, 2022 - 6:57pm

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