Biology:Melitoma
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Short description: Genus of bees
| Melitoma | |
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| Melitoma taurea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Tribe: | Emphorini |
| Genus: | Melitoma Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 |
Melitoma is a genus of chimney bees in the family Apidae. There are about 13 described species in Melitoma.[1][2][3][4][5] Found in the Nearctic and Neotropics.[4]
Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Melitoma:
- Melitoma ameghinoi (Holmberg, 1903) i c g
- Melitoma bifax Vachal, 1909 i c g
- Melitoma grisella (Cockerell & Porter, 1899) i c g
- Melitoma ipomoearum Ducke, 1913 i c g
- Melitoma marginella (Cresson, 1872) i c g b
- Melitoma nudicauda Cockerell, 1949 i c g
- Melitoma nudipes (Burmeister, 1876) i c g
- Melitoma osmioides (Ducke, 1908) i c g
- Melitoma segmentaria (Fabricius, 1804) i c g
- Melitoma strenua (Holmberg, 1903) i c g
- Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837) i c g b (mallow bee)
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Melitoma Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634196.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Browse Melitoma". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/8f4850a582fc73b1ca0e37f4ba4738af.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Melitoma". https://www.gbif.org/species/1341822.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Melitoma Genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/418684.
- ↑ "Melitoma Overview". http://eol.org/pages/42468/overview.
Further reading
- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC.
- "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. 1979. https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/catalog-hymenoptera-america-north-mexico.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4043957 entry
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