Thyreus
| Thyreus | |
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| Thyreus nitidulus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Tribe: | Melectini |
| Genus: | Thyreus Panzer, 1806 |
| Synonyms | |
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Thyreus is an Old World genus of bees, one of many that are commonly known as cuckoo bees, and are cleptoparasites of other species of bees, mostly in the genus Amegilla. They all have strongly contrasting patterns of coloration - three species from the Sydney region, Thyreus nitidulus, T. lugubris, and T. caeruleopunctatus are bright blue and black.
Species[]
- Thyreus abdominalis (Friese, 1905)
- (Radoszkowski, 1873)
- (Morawitz, 1874)
- (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- Straka & Engel, 2012
- (Cockerell, 1919)
- (DeGeer, 1778)
- (Brauns, 1909)
- (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- Straka & Engel, 2012
- (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- (Cockerell, 1936)
- Thyreus caeruleopunctatus (Blanchard, 1840)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- (Cockerell, 1919)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Pérez, 1905)
- Thyreus ceylonicus (Friese, 1905)
- (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Smith, 1852)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- Thyreus denolii Straka & Engel, 2012
- Thyreus elegans (Morawitz, 1878)
- Eardley, 1991
- (Meyer, 1921)
- (Kohl, 1906)
- Eardley, 1991
- (Meyer, 1921)
- (Cockerell & Mackie, 1933)
- (Cockerell, 1905)
- (Cockerell & Mackie, 1933)
- Thyreus garouensis Engel, 2014
- (Cockerell, 1910)
- Lieftinck, 1968
- (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- (de Beaumont, 1940)
- Thyreus histrio (Fabricius, 1775)
- (Illiger, 1806)
- Schwarz, 1993
- (Vachal, 1903)
- Lieftinck, 1968
- Lieftinck, 1968
- Lieftinck, 1968
- Thyreus insignis (Meyer, 1921)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Vachal, 1903)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Sivik, 1957)
- (Strand, 1911)
- Rozen, 1969
- Thyreus lugubris (Smith, 1879)
- (Cockerell, 1910)
- (Cockerell, 1907)
- (Cameron, 1905)
- (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- (Meyer, 1921)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- (Cockerell, 1933)
- (Meyer, 1921)
- (Cockerell, 1937)
- Thyreus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1804)
- (Lepeletier, 1841)
- (Lepeletier, 1841)
- (Lepeletier, 1841)
- (Cockerell, 1936)
- Lieftinck, 1968
- (Strand, 1921)
- Lieftinck, 1968
- (Morawitz, 1875)
- (Smith, 1854)
- (Brauns, 1909)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Kohl, 1905)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- Lieftinck, 1968
- (Meyer, 1921)
- (Radoszkowski, 1883)
- (Smith, 1879)
- Thyreus ramosellus (Cockerell, 1919)
- (Lepeletier, 1841)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Friese, 1905)
- (Rayment, 1931)
- Straka & Engel, 2012
- (Vachal, 1903)
- (Fabricius, 1781)
- (Saussure, 1890)
- Thyreus shebicus Engel, 2014
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Dalla Torre, 1896)
- (Strand, 1911)
- Lieftinck, 1962
- (Lepeletier, 1841)
- (Cockerell, 1936)
- (Meyer, 1921)
- Thyreus surniculus Lieftinck, 1959
- Thyreus takaonis (Cockerell, 1911)
- (Cockerell, 1905)
- (Pérez, 1883)
- (Pérez, 1883)
- (Vachal, 1903)
- (W. F. Kirby, 1900)
- (Friese, 1905)
- (Cockerell, 1905)
- (Cockerell, 1913)
See also[]
- Bee genera
External links[]
Media related to Thyreus at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Apinae
- Bee genera
- Hymenoptera of Africa
- Hymenoptera of Asia
- Hymenoptera of Europe
- Apinae stubs