Chilicola

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: Colletidae
Subfamilia: Hylaeinae
Supertribus: Xeromelissiti
Tribus: Xeromelissini
Genus: Chilicola
Subgenera (15): C. (Anoediscelis) – C. (Capitatiscopa) – C. (Chilicola) – C. (Chilioediscelis) – C. (Heteroediscelis) – C. (Hylaeosoma) – C. (Obesicola) – C. (Oediscelis) – C. (Oediscelisca) – C. (Oroediscelis) – C. (Prosopoides) – C. (Pseudiscelis) – C. (Stenoediscelis) – C. (Toroediscelis) – C. (Unicarinicola)
species not asigned to a subgenus

C. cupheae – C. liliana – C. longitarsa – C. setosicornis
Name

Chilicola Spinola, 1851 in Gay, Hist. Chile, 6, 210.
References

de Oliveira, F.F.; Mahlmann, T.; Engel, M.S. 2011: A new species of Chilicola from Bahia, Brazil (Hymenoptera, Colletidae), with a key to the species of the megalostigma group. ZooKeys, 153: 81–90.
Michener, C.D. 2002: The bee genus Chilicola in the tropical Andes, with observations on nesting biology and a phylogenetic analysis of the subgenera (Hymenoptera: Colletidae, Xeromelissinae). Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas 26: 1-47. Reference page.
Packer, L. & Genaro, J.A. 2007: Fifteen new species of Chilicola (Hymenoptera: Apoidea; Colletidae). Zootaxa 1468: 1–56. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Willis, E. & Packer, L. 2007: Revision and phylogenetic analysis of Chilioediscelis (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 1762: 29–52. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.