Biastini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Apidae
Subfamilia: Nomadinae
Tribus: Biastini
Genera: Biastes – Neopasites – Rhopalolemma – Schwarzia

[list of genera after Eardley (2009)]
References

Bossert, S. 2019. Monotypic no more – a new species of the unusual genus Schwarzia (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Biastini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 69: 23–37. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.69.32966 Reference page.
Eardley, C. 2009: First record of the tribe Biastini from the Afrotropical Region (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Zootaxa, 2264: 65–68. Abstract & excerpt

Biastini is a tribe of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 3 genera and about 12 described species in Biastini.[1][2][3][4]

Genera

Biastes Panzer, 1806
Neopasites Ashmead, 1898
Rhopalolemma Roig-Alsina, 1991

References

"Biastini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
"Biastini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
Sharkey M.J. (2007). Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera.

"Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera", Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.

Michener, Charles D. (2000). The Bees of the World, xiv + 913.
Michener, Charles D. (2007). The Bees of the World, Second Edition, xvi + 953.