Megahilids

	Megahilids
	; Anthidium manicatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Animals
Kingdom :	Eumetazoi
No rank :	Bilateral symmetrical
No rank :	Primary
No rank :	Molting
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Tracheo-breathing
Overclass :	Six-legged
Grade:	Insects
Subclass :	Winged insects
Infraclass :	Winged insects
Treasure :	Fully Transformed Insects
Squadron :	Hymenopterida
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder :	Belly-bellied
Superfamily :	Apoidea
Family:	Megahilids
International scientific name
	Megachilidae Latreille , 1802
Subfamilies
	Fideliinae; Megachilinae;

Megahilids ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ( lat. Megachilidae ) - a family of bees of the suborder Cepalaceous detachment Hymenoptera . Includes about 70 genera and more than 3100 species.

Content

Biology

Nest in an old tree, in wooden structures, in dry plant stems, in galls, in empty shells of mollusks, on stones, in cracked rocks, in clay and sandy soil. The cells are lined with pieces of leaves or flower petals, sand grains fastened with saliva. There are kleptoparasitic forms ( Stelis , Coelioxys ) that do not suit nests. Mostly polytrophic and oligotrophic plant pollinators.

Feature

Bees from small (5 mm) to large sizes (18 mm). The upper lip is longer than its width. Pygidium is absent. This family also includes the largest bee species in the world - Megachile pluto with a body length of 39 mm and a wingspan of 63 mm.

Distribution

Distributed throughout the world, except Antarctica .

Classification

There are about 70 genera and more than 3100 species.

Subfamily Fideliinae
- Tribe Fideliini
  - Fidelia Friese , 1899
  - Neofidelia Moure & Michener, 1955
- Tribe Pararhophitini
  - Pararhophites Friese, 1898

Subfamily Megachilinae
- Tribe Anthidiini (about 40 genera)
  - Anthidium Fabricius, 1804
  - Stelis Panzer, 1806 (kleptoparasites)
  - Trachusa Panzer, 1805
- Tribe Dioxyini (8 genera)
  - Dioxys Lepeletier et Serville, 1825 (parasites Megachile , Anthidium and Osmia )
- Triba Lithurgini (3 genera)
  - Lithurgus Berthold, 1827
- Tribe Megachilinii
  - Chalicodoma Lepeletier , 1841 - Masons Bees
  - Coelioxys Latreille, 1809 ( Megachile parasites)
  - Megachile Latreille, 1802 - Leaf cutter bees
- Tribe Osmiini (20 genera)
  - Chelostoma Latreille, 1809
  - Heriades Spinola, 1808
  - Hoplitis Klug, 1807
  - Osmia Panzer, 1806 - Carpenter Bees

Common Views

Masons Bees (Chalicodoma)
Leaf Cutter Bees (Megachile)
- Alfalfa leaf cutter ( Megachile rotundata )
Carpenter Bees (Osmia)

Photo Gallery

Anthidium manicatum
Photo: Bruce Marlin
Coelioxys , South Carolina
Osmia ribifloris

Notes

↑ Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. IV. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. Part 5 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2007 .-- S. 530. - 1052 p. - ISBN 978-5-8044-0789-7 .
↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 418.- 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.
↑ Striganova B.R. , Zakharov A.A. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names: Insects (Latin-Russian-English-German-French) /Ed. Dr. biol. sciences, prof. B.R. Striganova . - M .: RUSSO, 2000 .-- S. 302. - 1060 copies. - ISBN 5-88721-162-8 .

Literature

Ponomareva A.A. 1978 . Key to insects of the European part of the USSR, Sem. Megachilidae // L., Science, 1978. T 3, p. 418-452.
Romankova T.G. 1995 . Sem. Megachilidae // Key to insects of the Far East of Russia. - St. Petersburg. Volume 4. Part 1. P. 530-547.
Romasenko L.P. 1990 . Key to nests of megahilids (Apoidea, Megachilidae) of the European part of the USSR. - K .: Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 1990. - 37 p.
Banaszak J., Romasenko L. 1998 . Megachilid bees of Europe (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Megachilidae). - Bydgoszcz: Pedagogical Univ. Bydgoszcz, 1998 .-- 239 p.
Brothers DJ 1999 . Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) . Zoologica Scripta 28: 233-250.
Michener, CD 2007 . The bees of the world, second edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.
Ungricht, S .; Müller, A .; Dorn, S. 2008 . A taxonomic catalog of the Palaearctic bees of the tribe Osmiini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae). Zootaxa, 1865: 1-253.

Links

[name1-1] Key to insects of the Russian Far East. T. IV. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. Part 5 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2007 .-- S. 530. - 1052 p. - ISBN 978-5-8044-0789-7 .

[name3-2] Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 418.- 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.

[name2-3] Striganova B.R. , Zakharov A.A. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names: Insects (Latin-Russian-English-German-French) /Ed. Dr. biol. sciences, prof. B.R. Striganova . - M .: RUSSO, 2000 .-- S. 302. - 1060 copies. - ISBN 5-88721-162-8 .