Charles D. Michener. 68. Family Melittidae The Melittidae consist of andreniform S - T bees , having the characters of S - T bees listed in Section 19 and in the first couplet of the key to families , Section 33. Nonethe- less , other ...
... Melittidae and also a feature of all melittids , but the combination of ( 1 ) a ( usually ) short , pointed glossa ( Fig . 71-1 ) and an unspecialized ( i.e. , rel- atively short and not sheathlike ) ... Melittidae Family Melittidae.
... MELITTIDAE Melittidae is one of the smallest bee families, with a total of just 201 described species (Michez et al. 2009b). Melittidae is also an ancient, possibly relictual, bee family that is well-represented in the fossil record ...
... MELITTIDAE Ancient bees Despite their relative rarity worldwide, Melittidae are ancient bees and were probably flying side by side with pterosaurs. The oldest known bee fossil is thought to be around 100 million years old, and it is a ...
Olivia Messinger Carril, Joseph S. Wilson. MELITTIDAE. Melittidae is a small group of bees, common, though often overlooked. In all areas of the world where melittids occur, they are rare and usually geographically restricted (though they ...
... Melittidae), with a review of desert and Neotropical disjunctives in the southeastern U.S. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69(4): 38–247. Michez, D., Patiny, S., and Danforth, B. N. 2009. Phylogeny of the bee family Melittidae ...
... Melittidae : Melitta americana 364 Oxaeidae : Protoxaea Andrenidae : Dufour's gland product Colletidae : Dufour's gland of females Melittidae : Dufour's gland product Oxaeidae : Dufour's gland of females Andrenidae : Dufour's gland ...
... Melittidae and Stenotritidae . Despite being 97 million years old ( myo ) , the Melittidae presently have only 201 described species , many of which are rare and narrowly restricted geographically . The Melittidae are mostly distributed ...
... Melittidae: Melitta americana364 Melittidae: Dufour's gland product Geranylgeranial Formicidae: Hymenoptera mandibular gland of workers Formicidae: Lasius carniolicus 61 m/z (EI) 288(11), 273(3), 203(43), 163(39), 135(15), 95(37), 81(17) ...
... Melittidae and Stenotritidae ( which together comprise the " short - tongued " bees ) , and Megachilidae and Apidae ( which comprise the " long- tongued " bees ) . Family - level bee phylogeny has been analyzed based on morphology ( 33 ...