''Hoplitis anthocopoides'' is a species in the family
Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees. Both that their pollen-carrying structure (called a ''scopa'') is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other b ...
("leafcutter, mason, and resin bees, and allies"), in the order Hymenoptera ("ants, bees, wasps and sawflies").
The distribution range of ''Hoplitis anthocopoides'' includes Africa, Europe, Northern Asia (excluding China), and North America.
[
][Phylogeny and classification of Hymenoptera, Sharkey M.J. 2007.]
[Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera, Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.]
References
Further reading
* American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico, Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
* Krombein, Karl V., Paul D. Hurd Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks (1979). ''Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, vol. 2: Apocrita (Aculeata)'', xvi + 1199–2209.
* Ungricht, Stefan, Andreas Müller, and Silvia Dorn (2008). A taxonomic catalogue of the Palaearctic bees of the tribe Osmiini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae).
External links
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Megachilidae
Insects described in 1853
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