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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)
Megachile
(leaf-cutter bees)
Megachile
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Megachile (leaf-cutter bees)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos
Species Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus) (Patchwork Leaf-cutter Bee) 6  
Species Megachile ligniseca (Kirby) (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee) 5 13
Species Megachile versicolor Smith F. (a leaf-cutter bee)   7

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Else, G., 1999 Identification - Leafcutter Bees
Perkins, R.C.L., 1925 The British Species of Megachile, with Descriptions of Some New Varieties from Ireland, and a Species new to Britain in F. Smith’s Collection

Megachile may also 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 18 feeding and other relationships of Megachile (leaf-cutter bees)

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