Melitta (genus)

Melitta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Apoidea
Family:	Melittidae
Genus:	Melitta Kirby, 1802
Species
~40 species (see text)

The bee genus Melitta is a small group, with some 40 species, restricted to Africa and the northern temperate zone. Most of the species are Palaearctic, though three rare species occur in North America.

They are typically moderate-sized bees (8–15 mm), which are commonly oligolectic, greatly resembling bees of the genus Andrena (family Andrenidae), though with radically different mouthparts and a scopa limited to the hind tibia and basitarsus.

Species

• Melitta aegyptiaca (Radoszkowski, 1891)
• Melitta albida Cockerell, 1935
• Melitta americana (Smith, 1853)
• Melitta arrogans (Smith, 1879)
• Melitta barbarae Eardley, 2006
• Melitta bicollaris Warncke, 1973
• Melitta budensis (Mocsáry, 1878)
• Melitta californica Viereck, 1909
• Melitta cameroni (Cockerell, 1910)
• Melitta changmuensis Wu, 1988
• Melitta danae Eardley, 2006
• Melitta dimidiata Morawitz, 1876
• Melitta eickworti Snelling & Stage, 1995
• Melitta ezoana Yasumatsu & Hirashima, 1956
• Melitta fulvescenta Wu, 2000
• Melitta guichardi Michez, 2007
• Melitta haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1775)
• Melitta harrietae (Bingham, 1897)
• Melitta heilungkiangensis Wu, 1978
• Melitta hispanica Friese 1900
• Melitta iberica Warncke, 1973
• Melitta japonica Yasumatsu & Hirashima, 1956
• Melitta kastiliensis Warncke, 1973
• Melitta katherinae Eardley, 2006
• Melitta latronis Cockerell, 1924
• Melitta leporina (Panzer, 1799)
• Melitta maura (Pérez, 1896)
• Melitta melanura (Nylander, 1852)
• Melitta melittoides (Viereck, 1909)
• Melitta mongolica Wu, 1978
• Melitta montana Wu, 1992
• Melitta murciana Warncke, 1973
• Melitta nigrabdominalis Wu, 1988
• Melitta nigricans Alfken, 1905
• Melitta piersbakeri Engel, 2005
• Melitta rasmonti Michez, 2007
• Melitta schmiedeknechti Friese, 1898
• Melitta schultzei Friese, 1909
• Melitta seitzi Alfken 1927
• Melitta sibirica (Morawitz, 1888)
• Melitta tomentosa Friese, 1900
• Melitta tricincta Kirby, 1802
• Melitta udmurtica Sitdikov 1986
• Melitta whiteheadi Eardley, 2006

External links

• Melitta Identification Guide
• List of Species
• Worldwide Species Map

References

• C. D. Michener (2000) The Bees of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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