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Bees and Apoid Wasps
(Superfamily Apoidea)
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The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees. Molecular phylogeny demonstrates that the bees arose from within the Crabronidae, so that grouping is paraphyletic.
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Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies
(Family Apidae)
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Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for honey production), carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees, and a number of other less widely known groups. Many are valuable pollinators in natural habitats and for agricultural crops.
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Apine Bees
(Subfamily Apinae)
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The Apinae are the subfamily that includes the majority of bees in the family Apidae. It includes the familiar "corbiculate" (pollen basket) bees — bumblebees, honey bees, orchid bees, stingless bees, and the extinct genus Euglossopteryx. It also includes all but two of the groups (excluding Nomadinae and Xylocopinae) that were previously classified in the family Anthophoridae.
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Bee Hummingbirds, Emeralds, Mountain-gems, and Allies
(Subfamily Trochilinae)
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Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Rollers and Allies
(Order Coraciiformes)
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The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colorful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies. They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing toes (and toes 3 & 4 fused at their base), though in many kingfishers one of these is missing.
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Bee Hummingbirds and Allies
(Tribe Mellisugini)
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Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees
(Family Andrenidae)
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The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It includes some enormous genera (e.g., Andrena with over 1300 species, and Perdita with over 700). One of the subfamilies, Oxaeinae, is so different in appearance that they were typically accorded family status, but careful phylogenetic analysis reveals them
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Blue-banded and Allied Digger Bees
(Genus Amegilla)
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Amegilla is a large genus of bees in the tribe Anthophorini. Several species have blue metallic bands on the abdomen, and are referred to as "blue-banded bees".
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Fairy Bees, Goblin Bees, and False Goblin Bees
(Subtribe Perditina)
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Shortface Bees and Allies
(Subfamily Rophitinae)
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Rophitinae is a subfamily of sweat bees in the family Halictidae. There are about 13 genera and at least 250 described species in Rophitinae.
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Omega Bee-orchid and Allies
(Ophrys omegaifera)
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Ophrys omegaifera, the Omega Bee-orchid, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean region from Portugal and Morocco to Syria.
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