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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
APOIDEA
(solitary and hive bees)
MEGACHILIDAE
(a family of bees)
Osmia
(mason bees)
Osmia
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

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Osmia (mason bees)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #refs
Species Osmia inermis (Zetterstedt) (a mason bee)   1
Species Osmia rufa (Linnaeus) (Red Mason Bee or Masonry Bee) 1  
Species Osmia xanthomelana (Kirby) (a mason bee)   1

Suggested Literature

Osmia may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)		 Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)		 APOIDEA
(solitary and hive bees)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 12 feeding and other relationships of Osmia (mason bees)

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