Melitoma
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| Melitoma | |
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| Melitoma taurea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
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]
