SHARP-EATMAN
NATURE
PHOTOGRAPHY
BEE TRIBES OF THE FAMILY APIDAE
in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley
SUBFAMILY
ANTHOPHORINAE
TRIBE
ANTHOPHORINI
(digger bees)
GENUS
Anthophora
SUBFAMILY
APINAE
TRIBE
APINI
(honey bees)
GENUS
Apis
TRIBE
BOMBINI
(bumble bees)
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
EPEOLINI
(cuckoo bees)
GENUS
Epeolus
Triepeolus
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
* A Note on scientific nomenclature for longhorn bee genera: Recent phylogenetic research clarifying the evolutionary history of various Eucerini has resulted in the renaming of some longhorn bee genera and subgenera. Freitas et al (2023) reclassify North American Svastra, placing them in the genus Epimelissodes; absorb the subgenus Melissodes (Tachymelissodes) in the larger subgenus Apomelissodes; and split up species of Eucera (Xenoglossodes), placing some in the newly resurrected genus Xenoglossa. [Freitas FV, Branstetter MG, Franceschini-Santos VH, Dorchin A, Wright KW, López-Uribe MM, Griswold TL, Silveira FA, Almeida EAB. 2023. UCE phylogenomics, biogeography, and clas-sification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerinae), with insights on using specimens with extremely degraded DNA. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(4), 3: 1-21. ]