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Epeolini
Epeolini is a tribe of cuckoo bees, a tribe of the subfamily Nomadinae. Genera The tribe Epeolini is subdivided as follows: Subtribe: Odyneropsina Genus: '' Odyneropsis'' Subtribe: Rhogepeolina Genus: '' Rhogepeolus'' Subtribe: Epeolina Genus: ''Epeolus ''Epeolus'' is a genus of cuckoo bees of the tribe Epeolini, the subfamily Nomadinae part of the honey bee family Apidae. They are often known as variegated cuckoo-bees. Biology The species within ''Epeolus'' are medium-sized bees with bright pa ...'' Subtribe: Thalestriina Genus: '' Doeringiella'' Genus: '' Pseudepeolus'' Genus: '' Triepeolus'' Genus: '' Rhinepeolus'' Genus: '' Thalestria'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3055676 Nomadinae Taxa named by Earle Gorton Linsley ... [...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] |
Epeolus Variegatus Female, Dyffryn, North Wales, 2016 (31105989773)
''Epeolus'' is a genus of cuckoo bees of the tribe Epeolini, the subfamily Nomadinae part of the honey bee family Apidae. They are often known as variegated cuckoo-bees. Biology The species within ''Epeolus'' are medium-sized bees with bright patterns. There are currently approximately 100 species described from throughout the world. All known species of ''Epeolus'' are cleptoparasites of mining bees of the genus ''Colletes''. The female enters the nesting excavated by the female ''Colletes'' bee and lays an egg in an unsealed cell. The ''Epeolus'' larva then consumes the egg of the host bee and then feeds on the pollen the ''Colletes'' bee provisioned the cell with for her offspring. ''Epeolus'' bees may be rather obvious and easily observed in the vicinity of the nesting aggregations of their hosts and often use the same flowers to feed on. ''Colletes'' bees line their nesting cells with a cellophane like covering which they exude from the Dufour's gland to protect the cell fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epeolus
''Epeolus'' is a genus of cuckoo bees of the tribe Epeolini, the subfamily Nomadinae part of the honey bee family Apidae. They are often known as variegated cuckoo-bees. Biology The species within ''Epeolus'' are medium-sized bees with bright patterns. There are currently approximately 100 species described from throughout the world. All known species of ''Epeolus'' are cleptoparasites of mining bees of the genus ''Colletes''. The female enters the nesting excavated by the female ''Colletes'' bee and lays an egg in an unsealed cell. The ''Epeolus'' larva then consumes the egg of the host bee and then feeds on the pollen the ''Colletes'' bee provisioned the cell with for her offspring. ''Epeolus'' bees may be rather obvious and easily observed in the vicinity of the nesting aggregations of their hosts and often use the same flowers to feed on. ''Colletes'' bees line their nesting cells with a cellophane like covering which they exude from the Dufour's gland to protect the cell fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triepeolus
''Triepeolus'' is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 140 described species in ''Triepeolus''.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. The majority of species whose life history is known are kleptoparasitic in the nests of bees in the tribe Eucerini, especially the genera ''Melissodes ''Melissodes'' is a genus of long-horned bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 140 described species in ''Melissodes''. ITIS Taxonomic note: *The gender of the name "Melissodes" has traditionally been considered as feminine by taxonomist ...'' and '' Svastra''. See also * List of Triepeolus species References * Michener, Charles D. (2007). ''The Bees of the World, Second Edition'', xvi + 953. * Moure, J. S., and G. A. R. Melo / Moure, Jesus Santiago, Danúncia Urban, and Gabrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triepeolus Lunatus
''Triepeolus lunatus'' 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 bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for .... It is found in North America from Canada to northern Mexico. ''Triepeolus lunatus'' tends to live in forest edges and meadows. none, Smiley face pattern on thorax References Further reading * * External links * * Nomadinae Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1824 {{Nomadinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earle Gorton Linsley
Earle Gorton Linsley (May 1, 1910 in Oakland, California – March 8, 2000) was an American entomologist. In study at the University of California, Berkeley Linsley gained a Bachelor of Science in 1932, a Master of Science in 1933, and Doctorate in 1938. Linsley was a world-renowned expert in on the beetle family Cerambycidae The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than .... Linsley described many species including: *'' Pleocoma bicolor'' *'' Pleocoma blaisdelli'' *'' Pleocoma carinata'' *'' Pleocoma crinita'' *'' Pleocoma dubitabilis'' *'' Pleocoma hirticollis'' *'' Pleocoma lucia'' *'' Pleocoma minor'' *'' Pleocoma nitida'' *'' Pleocoma sonomae'' *'' Pleocoma venturae'' *'' Pleocoma trifoliata'' *'' Tetropium pilosicorne'' Pleocoma linsleyi was named in his honor. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Duncan Michener
Charles Duncan Michener (September 22, 1918 – November 1, 2015) was an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He was a leading expert on bees, his ''magnum opus'' being ''The Bees of the World'' published in 2000. __TOC__ Biography Much of his career was devoted to the systematics and natural history of bees. His first peer-reviewed publication was in 1934, at the age of 16. He received his BS in 1939 and his PhD in entomology in 1941, from the University of California, Berkeley. He remained in California until 1942, when he became an assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In 1944 he published a classification system for bees that was soon adopted worldwide, and was in use until 1993 and 1995, when he co-authored new classifications. From 1943 to 1946, Michener also served as a first lieutenant and captain in the United States Army Sanitary Corps, where he researched insect-borne diseases, and described the l ... [...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] |
