Amegilla

Amegilla
A. cingulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Tribe:	Anthophorini
Genus:	Amegilla Friese, 1897
Species
See text.
Diversity
c. 260 species

Amegilla is a large genus of bees in the tribe Anthophorini. Several species have blue metallic bands on the abdomen, and are referred to as "blue-banded bees". The genus occurs all around the world but very few live above 45° North.^[1]

Selected species[]

• Amegilla bombiformis (Smith, 1854)
• (Lepeletier, 1841)
• Amegilla canifrons (Smith, 1854)
• Amegilla confusa (Smith, 1854)
• Amegilla dawsoni (Rayment, 1951)
• Amegilla quadrifasciata (Villers, 1789)
• Amegilla violacea (Lepeletier, 1841)
• Amegilla mucorea (Klug, 1845)
• Amegilla fallax (Smith, 1879)
• Amegilla subcoerulea (Lepeletier, 1841)
• Amegilla cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Amegilla cingulifera (Cockerell, 1910)
• Amegilla comberi (Cockerell, 1911)
• Amegilla niveocincta (Smith, 1854)
• Amegilla asserta (Cockerell, 1926)
• Amegilla puttalama (Strand, 1913)
• Amegilla quadrifasciata (de Villers, 1789)
• Amegilla subinsularis (Strand) Cockerell, 1919
• Amegilla zonata (Linnaeus, 1758)

See also[]

• Josephine Cardale, an Amegilla researcher

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amegilla.

• Data related to Amegilla at Wikispecies
• ITIS: Genus Amegilla