Ancylaini is a tribe of
apid bees. The name was fixed by an
ICZN
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its publisher, the I ...
opinion to differentiate it from the
Ancylini tribe of fresh-water
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
s.
References
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C. D. Michener (2000) ''The Bees of the World'', Johns Hopkins University Press.
Apinae
Bee tribes
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