Melecta
{{Short description|Genus of bees}}
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| image = Melecta pacifica, f, md, pg, back 2015-05-14-09.29.37 ZS PMax (17054356014).jpg
| image_caption = Melecta pacifica
| taxon = Melecta
| authority = Latreille, 1802
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Melecta is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 50 described species in Melecta.
Species
These 55 species belong to the genus Melecta:
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- Melecta aegyptiaca Radoszkowski, 1876 i c g
- Melecta albifrons (Forster, 1771) i c g
- Melecta alcestis Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta alexanderi Griswold & Parker, 1999 i c g
- Melecta amanda Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta angustilabris Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta assimilis Radoszkowski, 1876 i c g
- Melecta atripes Morawitz, 1895 i c g
- Melecta atroalba (Lieftinck, 1972) i c g
- Melecta baeri Radoszkowski, 1865 i c g
- Melecta bohartorum Linsley, 1939 i c g
- Melecta brevipila Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta canariensis Lieftinck, 1958 i c g
- Melecta candiae Strand, 1915 g
- Melecta candida Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta caroli Lieftinck, 1958 i c g
- Melecta chalybeia (Lieftinck, 1972) i c g
- Melecta chinensis Cockerell, 1931 i c g
- Melecta corpulenta Morawitz, 1875 i c g
- Melecta curvispina Lieftinck, 1958 i c g
- Melecta diacantha Eversmann, 1852 i c g
- Melecta diligens Lieftinck, 1983 i c g
- Melecta duodecimmaculata (Rossi, 1790) i c g
- Melecta edwardsii Cresson, 1878 i c g b (Edward's melecta)
- Melecta emodi Baker, 1997 i c g
- Melecta excelsa Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta festiva Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta fulgida Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta fumipennis Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta funeraria Smith, 1854 i c g
- Melecta fuscipennis (Morawitz, 1875) i c g
- Melecta gracilipes Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta grandis Lepeletier, 1841 i c g
- Melecta guichardi Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta guilochei Dusmet y Alonso, 1915 i c g
- Melecta honesta Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta italica Radoszkowski, 1876 i c g
- Melecta kuschakewiczi (Radoszkowski, 1890) i c g
- Melecta leucorhyncha Gribodo, 1893 i c g
- Melecta luctuosa (Scopoli, 1770) i c g
- Melecta mundula Lieftinck, 1983 i c g
- Melecta nivosa Morawitz, 1893 i c g
- Melecta obscura Friese, 1895 i c g
- Melecta octomaculata Radoszkowski, 1876 g
- Melecta pacifica Cresson, 1878 i c g b
- Melecta prophanta Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta rutenica Radoszkowski, 1893 g
- Melecta separata Cresson, 1879 i c g b
- Melecta sibirica Radoszkowski, 1891 i c g
- Melecta sinaitica (Alfken, 1937) i c g
- Melecta solivaga Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta thoracica Cresson, 1875 i c g
- Melecta transcaspica Morawitz, 1895 i c g
- Melecta tuberculata Lieftinck, 1980 i c g
- Melecta turkestanica Radoszkowski, 1893 i c g
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Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
References
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{{Cite web| title=Melecta Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=154386
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2018-04-23
}}
{{Cite web| title=Browse Melecta
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/777834f1aa96e85fe1e34000c0e80a83
| website=Catalogue of Life
| access-date=2018-04-23
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melecta
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1345295
| website=GBIF
| access-date=2018-04-23
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melecta Genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/86270
| website=BugGuide.net
| access-date=2018-04-23
}}
}}
Further reading
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- {{Cite web
| access-date = 2019-07-02
| title = Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
| date = 2019
| last1 = Ascher | first1 = J.S.
| last2 = Pickering | first2 = J.
| url = http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Apoidea
}}
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External links
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- {{Commons category-inline|Melecta}}
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