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Species Melitta eickworti - Deerberry Blunt-horn

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 Melittidae (Melittid Bees)

Subfamily Melittinae

Tribe Melittini

Genus Melitta

Species eickworti (Deerberry Blunt-horn)

Explanation of Names

Melitta eickworti Snelling & Stage 1995

Range

e.US(1)

Food

Pollen specialist on Vaccinium (Polycodium)

Internet References

species page(1)

Works Cited

1.	Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 9 July, 2014 - 9:13pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 1 September, 2021 - 8:07pm

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