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Tribe Euglossini - Orchid Bees

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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 Euglossini (Orchid Bees)
Pronunciation
you-GLOSS-in-ee
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euglossinae
Explanation of Names
Euglossini Latreille 1802
Numbers
2 spp. in 2 genera in our area, 228 spp. in 5 genera total(1)
Identification
brightly metallic colored; tongue very long; apical spurs on metatibia; hind wings w/o jugal lobes; scutellum produced backward
Range
neotropical group, with 2 spp. in the extreme so. US (one recorded in Brownsville, TX; another recently established in so. FL)(1)