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Species Triepeolus grandis - Great Feather-tongue-Cuckoo


A review of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Part I
By Rightmyer M.G.
Zootaxa 1710, 2008

A new species of Triepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with comments on T. utahensis (Cockerell) and T. melanarius Rightmyer
By MG Rightmyer, et al.
Zootaxa, 2014

Phylogeny and classification of the parasitic bee tribe Epeolini (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Nomadinae)
By Rightmyer M.G.
Sci. Papers, Nat. Hist. Mus. U. Kans. 33: 1‒55, 2004

Revisions of the genera Townsendiella, Triopasites and Paranomada (Hymenoptera: Nomadidae)
By Linsley E.G.
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 69: 93-106, 1943

Nesting biologies and immature stages of the rophitine bees (Halictidae) with notes on the cleptoparasite Biastes(Anthophoridae)
By Rozen J.G.
Am. Mus. Novitates 3066: 1‒28, 1993

Family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
By Engel M.S.
Am. Mus. novitates 3476, 33 pp., 2005

The Solitary Bees - Biology, Evolution, Conservation
By Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff
Princeton University Press, 2019
A book I've been waiting for has arrived at my door.
Princeton introduction

Collecting bees in southern Texas.
By Cockerell, W.P.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193., 1917
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Cockerell, W.P. 1917. Collecting bees in southern Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193.