Melecta

Genus of bees

Melecta

Melecta pacifica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Tribe:	Melectini
Genus:	Melecta Latreille, 1802

Melecta is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 50 described species in Melecta.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Species

These 55 species belong to the genus Melecta:

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}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[1] c = Catalogue of Life,^[2] g = GBIF,^[3] b = Bugguide.net^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Melecta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
^ ^a ^b "Browse Melecta". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
^ ^a ^b "Melecta". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
^ ^a ^b "Melecta Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-23.

External links

Media related to Melecta at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Melecta	Wikidata: Q1757280 Wikispecies: Melecta BOLD: 96640 BugGuide: 86270 CoL: 5NNC EoL: 15847 Fauna Europaea: 232870 Fauna Europaea (new): e32e55a9-2451-4456-bb05-08d491555339 GBIF: 1345295 iNaturalist: 178512 IRMNG: 1437485 ITIS: 154386 NBN: NHMSYS0000876304 NCBI: 582866 Open Tree of Life: 621110 Paleobiology Database: 179980