BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
APIDAE (bees)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Honey Bee) | 1 | ||||
| Genus | Bombus (bumble bees) | 16 | 84 | 6 | 12 | 55 |
| Genus | Psithyrus (cuckoo bees) | 6 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 10 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Bumblebee pages: http://www.bumblebee.org | Web Site/Page |
| Bumble bees: http://www.sci.muni.cz/ptacek/bombi.htm | Web Site/Page |
APIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
APIDAE is associated with:
There may be taxa associated with Apidae listed at higher taxonomic level
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HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps) |
Associated with APIDAE:
| nest | nest may attract larva | Amobia signata - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) | van Emden, F.I., 1954 | ||
| nest | nest may attract larva | Metopia argyrocephala - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) | van Emden, F.I., 1954 | ||
| nest | nest may attract larva | Metopia campestris - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) | van Emden, F.I., 1954 |
Apidae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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ANIMALIA (animals) |
INSECTA (insects) |
HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps) |
Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants) |
APOIDEA |
References
| van Emden, F.I., 1954 | Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae |
