Melitoma
{{Short description|Genus of bees}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Melitoma taurea, m, back, Baltimore City Co., MD 2016-03-16-00.51.jpg
| image_caption = Melitoma taurea
| taxon = Melitoma
| authority = Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
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Melitoma is a genus of chimney bees in the family Apidae. There are about 13 described species in Melitoma. Found in the Nearctic and Neotropics.
Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Melitoma:
- Melitoma ameghinoi (Holmberg, 1903) i c g
- Melitoma bifax Vachal, 1909 i c g
- Melitoma grisella (Cockerell & Porter, 1899) i c g
- Melitoma ipomoearum Ducke, 1913 i c g
- Melitoma marginella (Cresson, 1872) i c g b
- Melitoma nudicauda Cockerell, 1949 i c g
- Melitoma nudipes (Burmeister, 1876) i c g
- Melitoma osmioides (Ducke, 1908) i c g
- Melitoma segmentaria (Fabricius, 1804) i c g
- Melitoma strenua (Holmberg, 1903) i c g
- Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837) i c g b (mallow bee)
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
References
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{{Cite web| title=Melitoma Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634196
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2018-04-01
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melitoma Overview
| url=http://eol.org/pages/42468/overview
| website=Encyclopedia of Life
| access-date=2018-04-01
}}
{{Cite web| title=Browse Melitoma
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/8f4850a582fc73b1ca0e37f4ba4738af
| website=Catalogue of Life
| access-date=2018-04-01
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melitoma
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1341822
| website=GBIF
| access-date=2018-04-01
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melitoma Genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/418684
| website=BugGuide.net
| access-date=2018-04-01
}}
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. Jr.
| date = 2000
| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC
| publisher = CRC Press
| edition = 2nd
| isbn = 0-8493-0212-9
}}
- {{Cite web
| access-date = 2018-04-01
| editor-last1 = Krombein | editor-first1 = Karl V.
| editor-last2 = Hurd Jr. | editor-first2 = Paul D. Jr.
| editor-last3 = Smith | editor-first3 = David R.
| editor-last4 = Burks | editor-first4 = B.D.
| date = 1979
| title = Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
| url = https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/catalog-hymenoptera-america-north-mexico
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution Press
}}
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