Melitoma

Melitoma is a genus of chimney bees in the family Apidae. There are about 13 described species in Melitoma. Found in the Nearctic and Neotropics.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Melitoma is referenced by 4 other articles, and connects out to Animalia, insect and International Standard Book Number.

It is catalogued under topics including Apinae, Bee genera and Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier.

Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Morning Glory Turret Bee

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderHymenoptera
FamilyApidae

Observations439

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 302
With media: 4
Family: Apidae
Collections: ECOSUR
Recorded in: Mexico, Guatemala

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Apidae
Image: Melitoma taurea, m, back, Baltimore City Co., MD 2016-03-16-00.51.jpg

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taxon name: Melitoma
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Melitoma

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Melitoma is a genus of chimney bees in the family Apidae. There are about 13 described species in Melitoma. Found in the Nearctic and Neotropics.

==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, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

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