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Subfamily Nomiinae - Nomiine Bees

Handsome bee - Nomia nortoni - male Bee, I think. - Nomia melanderi - female Dieunomia triangulifera M - Dieunomia triangulifera - male Long-horn or leaf cutter? - Nomia tetrazonata - male Bee - Nomia ID Help for Hymenopteran on Sea Ox-eye Daisy - Dieunomia heteropoda - male large black bee - Dieunomia heteropoda - female Nomia Bee - Nomia nortoni - 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 Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)
Subfamily Nomiinae (Nomiine Bees)
Numbers
17 spp. in 2 genera in our area, ~580 spp. in 11 genera worldwide/total(1)
Range
essentially an Old World group, poorly represented in NA (although one of our two genera is precinctive to NA) but absent from S.America(1)
Internet References
Bees of Florida(2)--includes key to genera, Subfamily Nomiinae (Nomia, Dieunomia)