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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 - Blunt-horn, Yellow Loosestrife, Pantaloon, Evening, and allied bees (Melittidae) » Hairy-footed Bees (Dasypodainae)

Subfamily Dasypodainae - Hairy-footed Bees

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Hesperapis - Hesperapis - male bee on Balduina angustifolia - Hesperapis oraria bee on Balduina angustifolia - Hesperapis oraria Anthophora pueblo? - Hesperapis Unknown bee - Hesperapis - female Desert bee - Hesperapis Rophitinae? - Hesperapis - female Hesperapis sp.? - Hesperapis - female
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 - Blunt-horn, Yellow Loosestrife, Pantaloon, Evening, and allied bees)
Subfamily Dasypodainae (Hairy-footed Bees)
Numbers
24 spp. in a single genus in our area, >90 spp. in 4 genera of 3 tribes worldwide(1)
Range
holarctic + Afrotropical; one genus is nearctic & so. African (you don't see that every day), two are restricted to the Palaearctic Region (one widespread, one in C.Asia), and one to the Afrotropical Region(1)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 15 May, 2008 - 9:57pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 15 January, 2014 - 6:36am

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