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For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Rophitinae - Short-faced Bees and Allies


A revision of the dufoureine genus Micralictoides Timberlake (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
By Bohart, G.E., and T.L. Griswold
Pan-Pacific Entomologist 63: 178-193, 1987

A review of the genus Conanthalictus
By Timberlake P.H.
Pan-Pac. Entomol. 37: 145‒160, 1961

A revision of the rophitine genus Protodufourea (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
By Bohart G.E., Griswold T.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 69: 177‒184, 1996

Systematics and biology of the bee genus Xeralictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae, Rophitinae)
By R. R. Snelling and G. I. Stage
Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, No. 451, pp 1-17, 1995

Family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
By Engel M.S.
Am. Mus. novitates 3476, 33 pp., 2005

The Solitary Bees - Biology, Evolution, Conservation
By Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff
Princeton University Press, 2019
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Princeton introduction

Collecting bees in southern Texas.
By Cockerell, W.P.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193., 1917
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Cockerell, W.P. 1917. Collecting bees in southern Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193.

New records and range extensions of several species of native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Mississippi
By Katherine Parys, Terry Griswold, Harold W. Ikerd, Michael Christopher Orr
Biodiversity Data Journal. 2018 May 17;(6), 2018