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Tribe Hesperapini

Hesperapis - female Bee - Hesperapis - male bee - Hesperapis Small bee? (probably the same as the last I posted) - Hesperapis Bee - Hesperapis Bee - Hesperapis - male Mason Bee - Hesperapis - male Bee - Hesperapis - 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 Melittidae (Melittid Bees)
Subfamily Dasypodainae
Tribe Hesperapini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Subtribe Hesperapina Ascher and Engel, 2005, of Dasypodaini, was elevated to tribal rank by Michez, Patiny, and Danforth, 2009, Systematic Entomology (2009), 34, 574–597.
Numbers
24 spp. in a single genus in our area, 46 spp. in 2 genera worldwide(1)