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Brachynomadini
Brachynomadini is a tribe of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 5 genera and 20 described species in Brachynomadini. Genera These five genera belong to the tribe Brachynomadini: * ''Brachynomada'' Holmberg, 1886 * '' Kelita'' Sandhouse, 1943 * ''Paranomada'' Linsley & Michener, 1937 * ''Trichonomada'' Michener, 1996 * ''Triopasites'' Linsley, 1939 i c g b Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References Further reading * External links * Nomadinae Articles created by Qbugbot {{Nomadinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of bees in the family Apidae. They are known commonly as cuckoo bees. This subfamily is entirely kleptoparasitic. They occur worldwide, and use many different types of bees as hosts. As parasites, they lack a pollen-carrying scopa, and are often extraordinarily wasp-like in appearance. All known species share the behavioral trait of females entering host nests when the host is absent, and inserting their eggs into the wall of the host cell; the larval parasite emerges later, after the cell has been closed by the host female, and kills the host larva. The first-instar larvae of nomadines are specially adapted for this, and possess long mandibles they use to kill the host larva, though these mandibles are lost as soon as the larva molts to the second instar, at which point it simply feeds on the pollen/nectar provisions. A behavioral habit shared by adults of various genera with males of many other bee species, who also do not possess a nest to return to, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apidae
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. 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 Ctenoplectridae. Although the most visible members of Apidae are social, the vast majority of apid bees are solitary, including a number of cleptoparasitic species. The old family Apidae contained four tribes (Apinae: Apini, Euglossini and Bombinae: Bombini, Meliponini) which have been reclassified as tribes of the subfamily Apinae, along with all of the former tribes and subfamilies of Anthophoridae and the former f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuckoo Bee
The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitism, kleptoparasitic behaviour of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds. The name is perhaps best applied to the apidae, apid subfamily Nomadinae, but is commonly used in Europe to mean bumblebees ''List of bumblebee species, Bombus'' subgenus ''Psithyrus''. Females of cuckoo bees are easy to recognize in almost all cases, as they lack pollen collecting structures (the scopa (biology), scopa) and do not construct their own nests. They often have reduced body hair, abnormally thick and/or heavily sculptured exoskeleton, and saber-like mandible (insect), mandibles, although this is not universally true; other less visible changes are also common. They typically enter the nests of pollen-collecting species, and lay their eggs in cells provisioned by the host bee. When the cuckoo bee larva hatches it consumes the host larva's pollen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranomada Velutina, M, Arizona, Angle 2014-08-08-14
''Paranomada'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least three described species in ''Paranomada''. Species These three species belong to the genus ''Paranomada'': * ''Paranomada californica'' Linsley, 1945 * ''Paranomada nitida'' Linsley & Michener, 1937 * ''Paranomada velutina ''Paranomada velutina'' is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae 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 ...'' Linsley, 1939 References Further reading * * External links * Nomadinae Articles created by Qbugbot {{Nomadinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachynomada
''Brachynomada'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae 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 .... There are about 17 described species in ''Brachynomada''. Species These 17 species belong to the genus ''Brachynomada'': * '' Brachynomada annectens'' (Snelling & Rozen, 1987) * '' Brachynomada argentina'' Holmberg, 1886 * '' Brachynomada bigibbosa'' (Friese, 1908) * '' Brachynomada cearensis'' (Ducke, 1911) * '' Brachynomada chacoensis'' Holmberg, 1886 * '' Brachynomada chica'' (Snelling & Rozen, 1987) * '' Brachynomada grindeliae'' (Cockerell, 1903) * '' Brachynomada margaretae'' (Rozen, 1994) * '' Brachynomada melanantha'' (Linsley, 1939) * '' Brachynomada nimia'' (Snelling & Rozen, 1987) * '' Brachynomada roigella'' (Michener, 1996) * '' Brachynomada roigi'' Roze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelita (bee)
''Kelita'' is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae 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 .... The species of this genus are found in Southern America. Species: * '' Kelita argentina'' Rozen, 1997 * '' Kelita chilensis'' (Friese, 1916) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q14476900 Apidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranomada
''Paranomada'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least three described species in ''Paranomada''. Species These three species belong to the genus ''Paranomada'': * ''Paranomada californica'' Linsley, 1945 * ''Paranomada nitida'' Linsley & Michener, 1937 * ''Paranomada velutina ''Paranomada velutina'' is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae 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 ...'' Linsley, 1939 References Further reading * * External links * Nomadinae Articles created by Qbugbot {{Nomadinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trichonomada
''Trichonomada'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. The only species in the genus species is ''Trichonomada roigella''; which has subsequently been included in the genus ''Brachynomada ''Brachynomada'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae 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 bumbleb ...''. References Further reading * * External links Nomadinae Monotypic Hymenoptera genera {{Nomadinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triopasites
''Triopasites'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least two described species in ''Triopasites''. Species These two species belong to the genus ''Triopasites'': * ''Triopasites penniger'' (Cockerell, 1894) * ''Triopasites spinifera ''Triopasites'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae 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 bumblebee ...'' Rozen, 1997 References Further reading * * Nomadinae {{Nomadinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
