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Subfamily Melittinae Schenk
[Family Melittidae]
Subfamily Melittinae was subdivided into Melittinae and Macropidinae (Michener, 1944) but separation into two was felt unnecessary (Michener, 2000). The larval and pupal phylogeny by Rozen & McGinley (1974), Rozen & Jacobson (1980), Cane et al. (1983) have illustrated the relationships of different groups falling in the subfamily. The phylogenic corelationships of various genera was discused by Michener (1981). Some more important publications with regard to different genera can be consulted are Mitchell (1960), Popov (1958), Snelling and Stage (1995), Wu (1965, 1978), Steiner & Whitehead (1991), Vogel (1976, 1986), Wu and Michener (1986) and Warncke (1973).
S. No.
Name of Genus with Author
Included subgenera and [no. of species]
Distribution
1.
Genus Macropis Panzer, 1809
a. Macropis Panzer, 1809, no.16 [12]
[For a consideration of the name Megilla Fabricius (1804) and its relation to the name Macropis, consult Michener (1983, 1984) and Commission Opinion 1383 (1986)]
b. Paramacropis Popov & Guiglia, 1936 [1]
[Macropis ussuriana Popov, 1936]
c. Sinomacropis Michener, 1981 [3]
mesic regions from western Europe to Japan and in eastern and central North America, from Qubec, Canada, to Georgia and west to Montana and Colorado, with more western records in Idaho and Washington state, USA
b. northern China and the Pacific maritime province of Russia
c. widespread in China but is not known from other countries
2.
Genus Melitta Kirby, 1802
a. Dolichochile Viereck, 1909 [1]
[Melitta melittoides (Viereck, 1909)]
b. Melitta Kirby, 1802 s.str. [28]
a. eastern USA from New Hampshire to Tennessee and Georgia
b. Holarctic and African region [Canary Islands and England to Japan]; also found in Cape Province (South Africa) and in Kenya; in North America occurs in two disjunct areas: Sonoran desert of California and Arizona, USA and Baja California, Mexico and, the eastern USA from New Hampshire to Florida and Mississippi
3. Genus Rediviva Friese, 1911 [as a subgenus of Andrena] - [23] 13 species are unnamed
South Africa and Lesotho 4. Genus Redividoides Michener, 1981 - [3] 2 species undescribed
Cape Province, South Africa
Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta
Department of Zoology
Jai Narain Vyas University
Jodhpur 342 005, India
Ph. +91-291-272 6666
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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.