Apidae
Apidae | |
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Xylocopa micans (a carpenter bee), on a Vitex species flower | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Apoidea |
Clade: | Anthophila |
Family: | Apidae Latreille, 1802 |
Type genus | |
Apis Linnaeus, 1758
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Subfamilies | |
Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for honey production), carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees, and a number of other less widely known groups.[1][2] Many are valuable pollinators in natural habitats and for agricultural crops.[3]
Taxonomy
In addition to its historical classification (honey bees, bumble bees, stingless bees and orchid bees), the family Apidae presently includes all the genera formerly placed in the families Anthophoridae and
The old family Apidae contained four tribes (Apinae:
Subfamilies
Apinae
The subfamily
Tribes include:[2]
- Ancylaini[6]
- Anthophorini
- Apini
- Bombini
- Centridini
- Ctenoplectrini
- Emphorini—(Subtribe Ancyloscelidina; Subtribe Emphorina)
- Ericrocidini
- Eucerini
- Euglossini
- Exomalopsini
- Isepeolini
- Melectini
- Meliponini
- Osirini
- Protepeolini
- Rhathymini
- Tapinotaspidini
- Tarsaliini[6]
- Tetrapediini
- Teratognathini
Nomadinae
The subfamily
Tribes include:[2]
- Ammobatini
- Ammobatoidini
- Biastini
- Brachynomadini
- Caenoprosopidini
- Epeolini—(Subtribe Epeolina; Subtribe Odyneropsina; Subtribe Thalestriina)
- Hexepeolini
- Neolarrini
- Nomadini
- Townsendiellini
Xylocopinae
The subfamily Xylocopinae, which includes carpenter bees, are mostly solitary, though they tend to be gregarious. Some tribe lineages, such as the Allodapini, contain eusocial species.
Most members of this subfamily make nests in plant stems or wood.
Tribes include:[2]
- Allodapini
- Ceratinini
- Manueliini
- Xylocopini
See also
- Bee (mythology)
- List of crop plants pollinated by bees
References
- PMID 22934982.
- ^ a b c d BugGuide.Net: the Family Apidae (of bees) . accessed 6.23.2013
- ^ a b [Michener, Charles D. (2007) The bees of the world. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, Londres.]
- ISBN 0-8160-5712-5]
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- ^ S2CID 89812681.
- Arnett, R. H. Jr. (2000). "Ch. 25: Hymenoptera (Wasps, Ants, and Bees)". American insects (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 531–614. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- Borror, D. J.; DeLong, D. M.; Triplehorn, C. A. (1976). An introduction to the study of insects (4th ed.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-088406-1.
- Mitchell, T. B. (1962). Bees of the Eastern United States. Vol. 2. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Tech. Bul. No. 152.