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Genus Epimelissodes

Eucerini - Melissodes - female ??? - Epimelissodes obliqua - female bee/fly orange hair behind head  - Epimelissodes obliqua Fierce looking bee - Epimelissodes atripes - female Longhorn Bee? - Epimelissodes obliqua - male Long-horned bee - Epimelissodes Svastra compta? - Epimelissodes obliqua Svastra? - Epimelissodes Eucerini; Epimelissodes; Svastra obliqua ssp. expurgata - Epimelissodes obliqua - 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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Eucerini (Longhorn Bees)
Genus Epimelissodes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Split from the Svastra Holmberg, 1884 as phylogenomic analyses recovered the 7 species in the Neotropical subgenus Svastra (Svastra) as distinctly part of a separate clade to the four Nearctic subgenera.
Numbers
16 spp. in 4 subgenera, all in our area(1)
Identification
Metanotum with a tuft of hair(2)
tuft looks like a yellow spot • tufts more pronounced

Key to species by LaBerge (1958).(3)
Range
Nearctic (ON & the US to Mexico)
Print References
Freitas, F.V. et al. 2023. UCE phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini), with insights on using specimens with extremely degraded DNA. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 7(4) 1–21. DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixad012.