The Bees of the World 2/e

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780801885730

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By Charles D. Michener
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Pages:
992

Description

Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Abbreviations


1. About Bees and This Book


2. What Are Bees?


3. The Importance of Bees


4. Development and Reproduction


5. Solitary versus Social Life


6. Floral Relationships of Bees


7. Nests and Food Storage


8. Parasitic amd Robber Bees


9. Body Form, Tagmata, and Sex Difference


10. Structures and Anatomical Terminology of Adults


11. Structures and Terminology of Immature Stages


12. Bees and Sphecoid Wasps as a Clase


13. Bees as a Monophyletic Group


14. The Origins of Bees from Wasps


15. Classification of the Bee-Sphecoid Clade


16. Bee Taxa and Categories


17. Methods of Classification


18. The History of Bee Classificatinos


19. Short-Tongued versus Long-Tongued Bees


20. Family-Level Phylogeny and the Proto-Bee


21. The Higher Classification of Bees


22. Fossil Bees


23. The Geological History of Bees


24. Diversity and Abundance


25. Disperal


26. Biogeography


27. Reduction or Loss of Structures


28. New and Modified Structures


29. Family-Group Names


30. Explanation of Taxonomic Accounts in Sections 36 to 121


31. Some Problematic Taxa


32. The Identification of Bees


33. Key to the Families, Based on Adults


34. Notes on Certain Couplets in the Key to Families (Section 33)


35. Practical Key to Family-Group Taxa, Based on Females


36. Family Stenotritidae


37. Family Colletidae


38. Subfamily Colletinae


39. Tribe Paracolletini


40. Tribe Colletini


41. Tribe Scraptrini


42. Subfamily Diphaglossinae


43. Tribe Caupolicanini


44. Tribe Diphaglossini


45. Tribe Dissoglottini


46. Subfamily Xeromelissinae


47. Subfamily Hylaeinae


48. Subfamily Euryglossinae


49. Family Andrenidae


50. Subfamily Alocandreninae


51. Subfamily Andreninae


52. Subfamily Panurginae


53. Tribe Protandrenini


54. Tribe Panurgini


55. Tribe Nolanomelissini


56. Tribe Melitturgini


57. Tribe Protomeliturgini


58. Tribe Perditini


59. Tribe Calliopsini


60. Subfamily Oxaeinae


61. Family Halictidae


62. Subfamily Rophitinae


63. Subfamily Nomiinae


64. Subfamily Nomioidinae


65. Subfamily Halictinae


66. Tribe Halictini


67. Tribe Augochlorini


68. Family Melittidae


69. Subfamily Dasypodainae


70. Tribe Dasypodaini


71. Tribe Promelittini


72. Tribe Sambini


73. Subfamily Meganomiinae


74. Subfamily Melittinae


75. Family Megachilidae


76. Subfamily Fideliinae


77. Tribe Pararhophitini


78. Tribe Fideliini


79. Subfamily Megachilinae


80. Tribe Lithurgini


81. Tribe Osmiini


82. Tribe Anthidiini


83. Tribe Dioxyini


84. Tribe Megachilini


85. Family Apidae


86. Subfamily Xylocopinae


87. Tribe Manueliini


88. Tribe Xylocopini


89. Tribe Ceratinini


90. Tribe Allodapini


91. Subfamily Nomadinae


92. Tribe Hexepeolini


93. Tribe Brachynomadini


94. Tribe Nomadini


95. Tribe Epeolini


96. Tribe Ammobatoidini


97. Tribe Biastini


98. Tribe Townsendiellini


99. Tribe Neolarrini


100. Tribe Ammobatini


101. Tribe Caenoprosopidini


102. Subfamily Apinae


103. Tribe Isepeolini


104. Tribe Osirini


105. Tribe Protepeolini


106. Tribe Exomalopsini


107. Tribe Ancylini


108. Tribe Tapinotaspidini


109. Tribe Tetrapediini


110. Tribe Ctenoplectrini


111. Tribe Emphorini


112. Tribe Eucerini


113. Tribe Anthophorini


114. Tribe Centridini


115. Tribe Rhathymini


116. Tribe Ericrocidini


117. Tribe Melectini


118. Tribe Euglossini


119. Tribe Bombini


120. Tribe Meliponini


121. Tribe Apini


Literature Cited


Addenda


Index of Terms


Index of Taxa

Reviews

""The author has produced a new definitive world taxonomic treatise on this large group of insects and is to be congratulated.""



 


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