Genus Anthophora - Digger Bees

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

DC B 4 ID #2 - Anthophora villosula - female

bee, green-eyed longhorn ? - Anthophora californica - male

Spring bumble bee - Anthophora villosula

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 Anthophorini (Digger Bees)

Genus Anthophora (Digger Bees)

Explanation of Names

Anthophora Latreille 1803

'flower-bearing'

Numbers

52 spp. in 9 subgenera in our area, 416 spp. in 11 subgenera worldwide(1)

Identification

According to Bees of Florida: "First recurrent vein joining second submarginal cell near middle; third submarginal cell subquadrate, with front and rear margins of about equal length, and basal and distal margins of about equal length; male gonostylus usually less than one-third as long as gonocoxite, often not double, sometimes reduced to almost nothing"

Range

most of the world except SE Asia & Australasia (map)(1)

Print References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 32:64-72 (Full Text)

Michener, C. D. (1936). Some western Anthophorid and Nomiine bees. Amer. Mus. Novitiates 876:1-2 (Full Text)

Timberlake, P. H. (1951). New species of Anthophora from the western United States (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 59:51-62 (Full Text)

Works Cited

1.	Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 19 March, 2006 - 2:55pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, John S. Ascher, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, hg, Marci Hess, PaleoJon
Last updated 19 May, 2021 - 10:13pm

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