Melissodes Latreille

Vivallo, Felipe, 2009, Notes on the bee genus Alloscirtetica Holmberg, 1909 in northern Chile with the description of two new altiplanic species and a key for the Chilean species of Eucerini (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 2010, pp. 16-30 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185792
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6214595
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scientific name	Melissodes Latreille
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Melissodes bruneri (Cockerell) , M. ecuadoria Schrottky & Bertoni , M. nigroaenea (Smith) , M. sexcinta (Lepeletier) , M. tintinnans (Holmberg) and M. rufodentata Smith are the South American species of this genus ( Urban 1973). These species are quite similar to each other, especially the males, which can be differentiated mainly by the color of the pilosity. The only species of the genus occurring in Chile is Melissodes ecuadoria .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Tribe	Eucerini

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Tribe	Eucerini
Genus	Melissodes

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