Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Apoidea
Familiae (10 + 2†): Ampulicidae – Andrenidae – Apidae – Colletidae – Crabronidae – Halictidae – Heterogynaidae – Sphecidae – Megachilidae – Melittidae – †Angarosphecidae – †Paleomelittidae

Name

• Apoidea Latreille, 1802

References

• Alexander, B. A. 1992. An exploratory analysis of cladistic relationships within the superfamily Apoidea, with special reference to sphecid wasps. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 1: 25-61.

• Bossert, S. 2014: The high alpine bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Zillertal Alps, Austria. Biodiversity data journal, 2: e1115. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1115 Reference page. 
• Eardley, C. and Urban, R. 2010: Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes). Zootaxa, 2455: 1–548. Preview (PDF)
• Engel, M.S. 2001: A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (259) ISSN: 0003-0090 DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)259<0001:AMOTBA>2.0.CO;2 (PDF)
• Engel, M.S. 2005: Family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). American Museum Novitates, 3476: 1–33. (PDF)
• Engel, M.S. 2011: Systematic melittology: where to from here? Systematic entomology, 36(1): 2–15. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00544.x

• Howlett, B.G. & Donovan, B.J. 2010. A review of New Zealand's deliberately introduced bee fauna: current status and potential impacts. New Zealand entomologist 33(1): 92–101. DOI: 10.1080%2F00779962.2010.9722196 . Reference page. 
• Michener, C.D. 1944. Comparative external morphology, phylogeny, and a classification of the bees (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 82: 151–326.
• Michener, C.D. 1953. Comparative morphological and systematic studies of bee larvae with a key to the families of hymenopterous larvae. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 35: 987-1102.
• Michener, C.D. 1954. Observations on the pupae of bees. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 30: 63-70.
• Michener, C.D., and D. A. Grimaldi. 1988. A Trigona from Late Cretaceous amber of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates no. 2917: 1-10.
• Michener, C.D. 1988. The oldest fossil bee: Apoid history, evolutionary stasis, and antiquity of social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 85: 6424-6426.
• Michener, C.D. 2007: The Bees of the World. 2nd Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 953 pp.
• Montalva, J. and L. Ruz. 2010. Updated systematic list of the Chilean bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Revista chilena de entomología, 35: 15–52. (PDF)
• Pulawski, W.J. 2003–2006. Sphecidae (s.l.): Family-Group Names and Classification. California Academy of Sciences. Introduction
• Roig-Alsina, A. and Michener, C.D. 1993. Studies of the phylogeny and classification of long-tongued bees (Hymenoptera:Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 55:124-162.

Vernacular names

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