''Amegilla'' is a large
genus of
bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyly, monophyletic lineage within the ...
s in the
tribe Anthophorini. Several species have blue metallic bands on the abdomen, and are referred to as "blue-banded bees" and "digger bees". One of their names in english, "digger bees" is given to them because they dig up a hole in dry ground and make it their nest.
The genus occurs all around the world but very few live above 45° North.
Amegilla are associated with arid and subarid biomes, matorrals, steppes, sub-deserts and deserts.
All of Amegilla are solitary species. They are also very fast, agid flyers, and because of this, some taxa are close to imposible to catch.
Selected species
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Amegilla bombiformis
''Amegilla bombiformis'', commonly known as the teddy bear bee or golden haired mortar bee, is an Australian native bee in the family Apidae.
It was originally described by F. Smith in 1854 as ''Saropoda bombiformis'' from a collection near th ...
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( Smith, 1854)
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Amegilla calens
''Amegilla calens'' is a species of bees in the genus Amegilla
''Amegilla'' is a large genus of bees in the tribe Anthophorini. Several species have blue metallic bands on the abdomen, and are referred to as "blue-banded bees" and "digger be ...
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( Lepeletier, 1841)
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Amegilla canifrons
''Amegilla canifrons'', the Canary islands Blue-banded bee is a species of bee, belonging to the family Apidae. The species is endemic to Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a ...
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(Smith, 1854)
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Amegilla confusa''
(Smith, 1854)
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Amegilla dawsoni
''Amegilla dawsoni'', sometimes called the Dawson's burrowing bee, is a species of bee that nests by the thousands in arid claypans in Western Australia. It is a long tongued bee, of the tribe Anthophorini and genus ''Amegilla,'' the second l ...
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(Rayment, 1951)
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Amegilla quadrifasciata
''Amegilla quadrifasciata'', the white-banded digger bee, is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae subfamily Apinae.
Distribution
These bees have a wide distribution ranging from the Canary Islands in the west to Japan in the east. ...
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*Villers-Allerand, in the Marne ''département''
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, 1789)
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Amegilla violacea
''Amegilla violacea'' is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are ...
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( Lepeletier, 1841)
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Amegilla mucorea''
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Amegilla fallax
''Amegilla fallax'' is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are ...
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(Smith, 1879)
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Amegilla subcoerulea
''Amegilla subcoerulea'' is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees ...
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( Lepeletier, 1841)
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Amegilla cingulata
''Amegilla cingulata'' is a species of blue-banded bees, bee native to Australia. Currently, several scientific organizations are conducting research on how ''A. cingulata'' benefits agriculture through its distinctive "buzz pollination".
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Amegilla cingulifera
''Amegilla cingulifera'', is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees ...
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, 1910)
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Amegilla comberi
''Amegilla comberi'', is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are ...
''
(Cockerell, 1911)
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Amegilla niveocincta
''Amegilla niveocincta'', is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees ...
''
(Smith, 1854)
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Amegilla asserta
''Amegilla asserta'' is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a ...
''
(Cockerell, 1926)
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Amegilla puttalama
''Amegilla puttalama'', is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees a ...
''
( Strand, 1913)
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Amegilla quadrifasciata
''Amegilla quadrifasciata'', the white-banded digger bee, is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae subfamily Apinae.
Distribution
These bees have a wide distribution ranging from the Canary Islands in the west to Japan in the east. ...
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(de Villers, 1789)
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Amegilla subinsularis
''Amegilla subinsularis'', is a species of bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bee ...
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(Strand) Cockerell, 1919
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Amegilla zonata
''Amegilla zonata'' is a species of blue-banded bees belonging to the family Apidae, widely distributed in Southeast Asia, where it is often confused with the Australian species ''Amegilla cingulata
''Amegilla cingulata'' is a species of b ...
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( Linnaeus, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 РSwedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linn̩) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
)
See also
*
Josephine Cardale
Josephine Christina Cardale worked as an entomologist for CSIRO from 1967 to 2001. She was a collection manager of Hymenoptera at the Australian National Insect Collection.
Career
Prior to working for CSIRO, her Master of Science thesis at U ...
, an ''Amegilla'' researcher
References
* Pierre Rasmont, ''Bees of Europe'' (2019)
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* ITIS
Genus ''Amegilla''
Apinae
Bee genera
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