🦋 Family

Melittidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hymenoptera › Melittidae

Dasypoda hirtipes, the pantaloon bee, is a medium-to-large Eurasian mining bee with distinctive pollen-carrying leg hairs on females.

Hesperapis oraria, the Gulf Coast solitary bee, is a rare monolectic solitary bee restricted to Gulf Coast dunes of the southeastern US.

Macropis europaea is a Melittidae insect species native to Europe that has a mutualistic relationship with yellow loosestrife.

Macropis nuda is a solitary oligolectic bee native to northern North America that nests underground and depends on Lysimachia ciliata.

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