Melitoma

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: Apinae
Tribus: Emphorini
Genus: Melitoma
Species: M. ameghinoi – M. grisella – M. ipomoearum – M. marginella – M. nudicauda – M. nudipes – M. osmioides – M. segmentaria – M. strenua – M. taurea
Name

Melitoma Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Type species: Melitoma euglossoides Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 by monotypy.
Synonyms

Entechnia Patton, 1879
Meliphila Schrottky, 1902
Energoponus Holmberg, 1903

References

Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville 1828. [Articles] pp. 345-832 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris.
Vachal, J. 1909: Sur le genre Melitoma S. F. et Serv. et sur les genres voisins de la sous- famille Anthophorinae [Hym.]. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 78: 5–14.
Linsley, E.G. & MacSwain, J.W., and Michener, C.D.. 1980. Nesting biology and associates of Melitoma. University of California Publications in Entomology 90: i-viii ˿Ý 1-45.
Roig-Alsina, A. 2009: Two new species of Melitoma Lepeletier and Serville (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Emphorini) from South America, with modified hind legs in the males. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 11(1): 101–105.

Melitoma is a genus of chimney bees in the family Apidae. There are about 13 described species in Melitoma.[1][2][3][4][5] Found in the Nearctic and Neotropics.[4]

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,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References

"Melitoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
"Browse Melitoma". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
"Melitoma". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
"Melitoma Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-01.

"Melitoma Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-01.

Further reading

Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-04-01.