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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 » Melittid Bees (Melittidae)

Family Melittidae - Melittid Bees

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Bee - Hesperapis - male Bee on Desert Rock Nettle - Hesperapis - male Bee - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis rufipes - female Hesperapis? - Hesperapis Small bee - Hesperapis regularis Mason Bee - Hesperapis - male Lasioglossum? - Hesperapis
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 Melittidae (Melittid Bees)
Other Common Names
Melittids
Numbers
32 spp. in 3 genera of 2 subfamilies and 3 tribes in our area, >180 spp. in 15 genera of 3 subfamilies and 6 tribes worldwide(1)
Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide)
Family Melittidae
Subfamily Dasypodainae
Tribe Hesperapini Hesperapis (subgenera Amblyapis, Carinapis, *Disparapis, Hesperapis, Panurgomia, Xeralictoides, Zacesta)
Subfamily Melittinae
Tribe Macropidini Macropis (subg. Macropis)
Tribe Melittini Melitta (subg. Cilissa)
Range
Holarctic, Ethiopian, Oriental(1)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 15 May, 2008 - 9:54pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Graham M, John S. Ascher, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 22 December, 2023 - 10:00pm

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