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Melissodes  Latreille, 1829
Taxonomic Serial No.: 634194

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete    
  Latest Record Review: 2008    
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumArthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artrópode  
       SubphylumHexapoda  -- hexapods  
          ClassInsecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto  
             SubclassPterygota  -- insects ailés, winged insects  
                InfraclassNeoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects  
                   OrderHymenoptera  -- abelha, ants, bees, formiga, vespa, wasps  
                      SuborderApocrita  -- abeilles, ants, bees, fourmis, guêpes véritables, narrow-waisted hymenopterans, true wasps  
                         InfraorderAculeata   
                            SuperfamilyApoidea  -- apoid wasps, bees, sphecoid wasps  
                               FamilyApidae  -- bumble bees, euglossine, euglossines, honey bees, stingless bees  
                                  SubfamilyApinae   
                                     TribeEucerini   
                                        GenusMelissodes Latreille, 1829  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Melissodes ablusa Cockerell, 1926  
                                           Species Melissodes agilis Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes apicata Lovell & Cockerell, 1906  
                                           Species Melissodes appressa LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes baileyi Cockerell, 1906  
                                           Species Melissodes bicolorata LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes bidentis Cockerell, 1914  
                                           Species Melissodes bimaculata (Lepeletier, 1825)  
                                           Species Melissodes bimatris LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes blanda LaBerge, 1956  
                                           Species Melissodes boltoniae Robertson, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes brevipyga LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes bruneri (Cockerell, 1918)  
                                           Species Melissodes cerussata LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes cestus Krombein, 1953  
                                           Species Melissodes clarkiae LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes colliciata Cockerell, 1910  
                                           Species Melissodes coloradensis Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes comata LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes communis Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes composita Tucker, 1909  
                                           Species Melissodes comptoides Robertson, 1898  
                                           Species Melissodes confusa Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes coreopsis Robertson, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes crocina LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes cubensis LaBerge, 1956  
                                           Species Melissodes dagosa Cockerell, 1909  
                                           Species Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854  
                                           Species Melissodes dentiventris Smith, 1854  
                                           Species Melissodes desponsa Smith, 1854  
                                           Species Melissodes druriella (Kirby, 1802)  
                                           Species Melissodes ecuadoria Bertoni & Schrottky, 1910  
                                           Species Melissodes elegans LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes exilis LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes expolita LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes fasciatella LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes fimbriata Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes flexa LaBerge, 1956  
                                           Species Melissodes floris Cockerell, 1896  
                                           Species Melissodes foxi Crawford, 1915  
                                           Species Melissodes fumosa LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes gelida LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes gilensis Cockerell, 1896  
                                           Species Melissodes glenwoodensis Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes grindeliae Cockerell, 1898  
                                           Species Melissodes haitiensis LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes humilior Cockerell, 1903  
                                           Species Melissodes hurdi LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes hymenoxidis Cockerell, 1906  
                                           Species Melissodes illata Lovell & Cockerell, 1906  
                                           Species Melissodes interrupta LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes intorta Cresson, 1872  
                                           Species Melissodes labiatarum Cockerell, 1896  
                                           Species Melissodes leprieuri Blanchard, 1849  
                                           Species Melissodes limbus LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes lupina Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes lustra LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes lutulenta LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes maesta LaBerge, 1956  
                                           Species Melissodes manipularis Smith, 1854  
                                           Species Melissodes martinicensis Cockerell, 1917  
                                           Species Melissodes melanura (Cockerell, 1916)  
                                           Species Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868  
                                           Species Melissodes metenua Cockerell, 1924  
                                           Species Melissodes micheneri LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes microsticta Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes mimica Cresson, 1869  
                                           Species Melissodes minuscula LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes mitchelli LaBerge, 1956  
                                           Species Melissodes monoensis LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes montana Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes moorei Cockerell, 1926  
                                           Species Melissodes morrilli Cockerell, 1918  
                                           Species Melissodes negligenda Cockerell, 1949  
                                           Species Melissodes nigracauda LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes nigroaenea (Smith, 1854)  
                                           Species Melissodes nivea Robertson, 1895  
                                           Species Melissodes ochraea LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes opuntiella Cockerell, 1911  
                                           Species Melissodes pallidisignata Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes panamensis Cockerell, 1928  
                                           Species Melissodes paroselae Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes paucipuncta LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes paulula LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes perlusa Cockerell, 1925  
                                           Species Melissodes perpolita LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes persimilis Cockerell, 1949  
                                           Species Melissodes personatella Cockerell, 1901  
                                           Species Melissodes pexa LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes pilleata LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes plumosa LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes pullata Cresson, 1865  
                                           Species Melissodes pullatella LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes raphaelis Cockerell, 1898  
                                           Species Melissodes relucens LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes rivalis Cresson, 1872  
                                           Species Melissodes robustior Cockerell, 1915  
                                           Species Melissodes rufipes LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes rufodentata Smith, 1854  
                                           Species Melissodes saponellus Cockerell, 1908  
                                           Species Melissodes scotti Cockerell, 1939  
                                           Species Melissodes semilupina Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes sexcincta (Lepeletier, 1841)  
                                           Species Melissodes snowii Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes sonorensis LaBerge, 1963  
                                           Species Melissodes sphaeralceae Cockerell, 1896  
                                           Species Melissodes stearnsi Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes subagilis Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes subillata LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes submenuacha Cockerell, 1897  
                                           Species Melissodes tepaneca Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes tepida Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes terminata LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes tescorum LaBerge, 1963  
                                           Species Melissodes tessellata LaBerge, 1956  
                                           Species Melissodes thelypodii Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes tibialis (Fabricius, 1804)  
                                           Species Melissodes tincta LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes tintinnans (Holmberg, 1884)  
                                           Species Melissodes tribas LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes trifasciata Cresson, 1878  
                                           Species Melissodes trinodis Robertson, 1901  
                                           Species Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894  
                                           Species Melissodes tuckeri Cockerell, 1909  
                                           Species Melissodes utahensis LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes velutina (Cockerell, 1916)  
                                           Species Melissodes verbesinarum Cockerell, 1905  
                                           Species Melissodes vernalis LaBerge, 1961  
                                           Species Melissodes vernoniae Robertson, 1902  
                                           Species Melissodes wheeleri Cockerell, 1906  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
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  Notes:    
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  Source: Checklist of Apoidea of North America... - 18-Nov-2005, manuscript (version 18-Nov-05)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: Griswold, T., and J. S. Ascher. 2005. Checklist of Apoidea of North America (including Central America and the Caribbean) (as-yet unpublished manuscript from 2004+)   
  Reference for: Melissodes   
       
  Source: Hymenoptera Name Server version 0.03 4.x.2002, website (version 0.03)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu:8880/hymenoptera/nomenclator.home_page   
  Reference for: Melissodes   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Michener, Charles D.  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Bees of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 913   
  Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-6133-0   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Melissodes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Michener, Charles D.  
  Publication Date: 2007   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Bees of the World, Second Edition   
  Page(s): xvi + 953   
  Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8573-6   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Melissodes   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Apparently the gender of Melissodes has always been treated as feminine by bee specialists. However, Doug Yanega (in litt., May 2008) has suggested that the gender should be masculine under ICZN Art. 30.1.4.4. This matter needs further consideration!  
 

 

    

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