Melitta (bee)

Melitta
	, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Melittidae
Subfamily:	Melittinae
Genus:	Melitta; Kirby, 1802
Species
	~40 species (see text)

Melitta is a genus of bees in the family Melittidae. It includes about 40 species restricted to Africa and the northern temperate zone.^{[citation needed]} Most of the species are Palaearctic, though three rare species occur in North America.

They are bees of moderate size, generally 8 to 15 mm long. They are commonly oligolectic, with narrow host plant preferences. They resemble bees of the genus Andrena, though with radically different mouthparts and a scopa limited to the hind tibia and basitarsus. Melitta have a crucial role as pollinators and they are protected through the Pollinators policy based on EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030.^[1]

Species[]

, male

, male

Melitta eickworti, female

(Radoszkowski, 1891)
Cockerell, 1935
(Smith, 1853)
(Smith, 1879)
Eardley, 2006
Warncke, 1973
Radchenko & Ivanov, 2012
(Mocsáry, 1878)
Viereck, 1909
(Cockerell, 1910)
Wu, 1988
Eardley, 2006
Morawitz, 1876
Melitta eickworti Snelling & Stage, 1995
Michez, 2012
Yasumatsu & Hirashima, 1956
Wu, 2000
Michez, 2007
(Fabricius, 1775)
(Bingham, 1897)
Wu, 1978
Friese 1900
Warncke, 1973
Yasumatsu & Hirashima, 1956
Warncke, 1973
Eardley, 2006
Cockerell, 1924
(Panzer, 1799)
Michez, 2012
(Pérez, 1896)
Melitta melanura (Nylander, 1852)
(Viereck, 1909)
Wu, 1978
Wu, 1992
Warncke, 1973
Wu, 1988
Alfken, 1905
Engel, 2005
Michez, 2007
Friese, 1898
Friese, 1909
Alfken 1927
(Morawitz, 1888)
Michez, 2012
Friese, 1900
Kirby, 1802
Sitdikov 1986
Eardley, 2006

References[]

^ https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species/pollinators/policy_en.htm

C. D. Michener (2000) The Bees of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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