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Genus Hesperapis

Representative Images

Hesperapis regularis - Hesperapis regularis - male Bee with broken antenna - Hesperapis - male Bee - Hesperapis - male Hymenoptera - Hesperapis - female Hymenoptera - Hesperapis - female Mason Bee - Hesperapis - male Hesperapis 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
Genus Hesperapis

Explanation of Names

Hesperapis Cockerell 1898
from the Latin Hesperus ('evening star' or Venus as seen in the evening) + apis ('bee'). Although some species are active in the evening (atypical for bees), most members of the bee genus are diurnal as usual for bees.

Numbers

24 spp. in 7 subgenera in our area, 37 spp. in 8 subgenera total(1)
Subgenera not yet in the guide (all restricted to sw. US & n. Mexico):
Amblyapis: 5 spp., all in our area(1)
Disparapis: monotypic subgenus(1)
Hesperapis: 2 spp., both in our area(1)

Range

7 subgenera are nearctic (mostly w. US & Mexico), one is restricted to so. Africa (13 spp.) (map)(1)

Remarks

our only representative of the tribe Hesperapini (that contains one more genus of 9 spp. precinctive to sw. & c. Asia)(1)

Internet References

Discover Life

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 - 9:59pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 22 December, 2023 - 9:56pm

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