Melittidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Apoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Melittidae
Subfamiliae: Dasypodainae - Meganomiinae - Melittinae
[list of subfamiliae after Michez, Patiny & Danforth (2009)]

Melittidae Schenck, 1860: 136

Type genus: Melitta Kirby, 1802.

Alexander, B. A., Michener, C.D. and Gardner, A.L.. 1998. Dasypodidae Börner, 1919 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): Proposed emendation of spelling to Dasypodaidae, so removing the homonymy with Dasypodidae Gray, 1821 (Mammalia, Xenarthra). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55: 24-28.
Michener, C.D. 1944. Comparative external morphology, phylogeny, and a classification of the bees (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 82: 151–326.
Michener, C.D. 1981. Classification of the bee family Melittidae with a review of species of Meganomiinae. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 18(3): 1–135.
Michez, D.; Patiny, S.; Danforth, B.N. 2009: Phylogeny of the bee family Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on combined molecular and morphological data. Systematic entomology, 34(3): 574–597. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00479.x
Schenck, A. 1860. Verzeichniss der nassauischen Hymenoptera aculeata. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 21: 132–157, 417–419.