SHARP-EATMAN
NATURE
PHOTOGRAPHY
BEE GENERA OF THE FAMILY APIDAE
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Bumblebees, carpenter bees, chimney bees, digger and oil-digger bees, honey bees & their kin, and cuckoo bees
FAMILY APIDAE
SUBFAMILY
ANTHOPHORINAE
TRIBE
ANTHOPHORINI
(digger bees)
GENUS
Anthophora
SUBFAMILY
APINAE
TRIBE
APINI
(honey bees)
GENUS
Apis
TRIBE
BOMBINI
(bumblebees)
GENUS
Bombus
TRIBE
CENTRIDINI
(oil-digger bees)
GENUS
Centris
SUBFAMILY
EUCERINAE
TRIBE
ANCYLOSCELIDINI
(crooked-legged bees)
GENUS
Ancyloscelis
TRIBE
EMPHORINI
(chimney bees)
GENUS
Diadasia
Melitoma
TRIBE
EUCERINI
(longhorn bees)
GENUS
*Eucera / Xenoglossa
Florilegus
Melissodes
Melissoptila
*Svastra / Epimelissodes
TRIBE
EXOMALOPSINI
(exomalopsine bees)
GENUS
Anthophorula
Exomalopsis
SUBFAMILY
NOMADINAE
TRIBE
BRACHYNOMADINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Paranomada
TRIBE
EPEOLINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Epeolus
Triepeolus
TRIBE
**ERICRODINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Ericrocis
TRIBE
MELECTINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Brachymelecta
TRIBE
NOMADINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Nomada
TRIBE
PROTEPEOLINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Leiopodus
SUBFAMILY
XYLOCOPINAE
TRIBE
CERATININI
(small
carpenter bees)
GENUS
Ceratina
TRIBE
XYLOCOPINI
(large
carpenter bees)
GENUS
Xylocopa