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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Anthophorine Bees (Anthophorini) » Anthophora

Genus Anthophora

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
help to identify this one please - Anthophora Digger Bee ? - Anthophora - male 12102503-2Bee - Anthophora urbana Black Bee - Anthophora pacifica - female Southwestern Cactus Bee, Diadasia rinconis? - Anthophora unknown bee - Anthophora Apidae? - Anthophora fury leafcutter? or maybe a longhorn? - Anthophora
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 (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Anthophorini (Anthophorine Bees)
Genus Anthophora
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)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2016) 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, v belov, H. Go, Marci Hess
Last updated 11 February, 2017 - 4:44pm

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