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Family Halictidae Thomson
The family including sweat bees, are the commonmost bees in number of individuals after Apis. Species are quite widely distributed in both hemisphere. This is a large family subdivided in to four subfamilies namely, Rophitinae, Nomiinae, Nomioidinae and Halictinae.
Warncke (1979) revised the entire Rophitinae. South American genera of this subfamily were revised by Rozen (1997). A series of publications taxonomically revising Halictini were published by Ebmer (1969 to 1995). Eickwort (1969), Mitchell, Moure and Hurd (1987) recognized genera differeing in trivial characters. Rozen (1993), Snelling and Stage (1995), Iwata (1976), Wcislo and Engel (1996) are some of the important references with regards to nesting biology and immatures. Tribe Augochlorini is more or less restricted to American continent. major works regarding this tribe are Sandhouse (1937), Mitchell (1960), Eickwort (1969), Engel, Brooks and Yanega (1997) and, for nestings Michener (1962), Sakagami (1964), Eickwort (1973), Eickwort and Sakagami (1979) and, Engel (2000) for tribe Augochlorini. A good number of genera have their representatives in our specified region. However, most of the species are awaiting taxonomic revision. Therefore, genera with major number of species like Halictus and Nomia are infect listed here as sensu lato.
Summary of included subfamilies and tribes and, their respective genera found in our specified region:
S.
No.
Subfamilies Tribe
Genera found in our specified region
A. Rophitinae
Morawitzella Popov, Morawitzia Friese, Rophites Spinola, Systropha Illiger B. Nomiinae Lipotriches Gerstaecker, Nomia Latreille, Pseudapis Kirby, Steganomus Ritsema C. Nomioidinae Ceylalictus Strand, Nomioides Schenck D. Halictinae 1. Halictini Halictus Latreille, Homalictus Cockerell, Lasioglossum Curtis, Patellapis Friese, Sphecodes Latreille, Thrincohalictus Blüthgen, Thrinchostoma Saussure 2. Augochlorini
Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta
Department of Zoology
Jai Narain Vyas University
Jodhpur 342 005, India
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Visit "An Updating Bibliography of the Bees of the World" by the same author for the authors' linked references mentioned in this document.