Biology:Meganomiinae
| Meganomiinae | |
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| Meganomia gigas | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Clade: | Anthophila |
| Family: | Melittidae |
| Subfamily: | Meganomiinae |
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Ceratomonia | |
Meganomiinae is a subfamily of melittid bees, with 10 species in four genera, found only in Africa, primarily in xeric habitats, with the distributional limits in Yemen and Madagascar .[1] They are rather different in appearance from the other groups of past/present melittids, being large bees (10–22 mm), mostly black with strong yellow markings, resembling anthidiine megachilids.[1] Males of this subfamily are known to have hidden sterna.[2]
Taxonomy
Initial molecular work suggested that the family Melittidae was paraphyletic, and that its subfamilies (including Meganomiinae) should therefore be elevated to family status.[3][4] However, these studies included very few melittids, due to their rarity. A 2013 investigation included a greater number of melittid bees and concluded that the family was probably monophyletic, thus supporting Meganomiinae as a subfamily of Melittidae.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michez, Denis (2008). "Monographic revision of the melittid bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Melittidae sensu lato)". Proceedings of the Netherlands Entomological Society Meeting 19: 32. http://zoologie.umh.ac.be/hymenoptera/biblio/P6_Michez_2008_Wageningen_Melittid_bees.pdf.
- ↑ Michez, D.; Eardley, C.D.; Timmermann, K.; Danforth, B.N. (2010). "Unexpected polylecty in the bee genus Meganomia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea; Melittidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 83 (3): 222–. doi:10.2317/JKES0911.20.1.
- ↑ Danforth, B.N.; Sipes, S.; Fang, J.; Brady, S.G. (2006). "The history of early bee diversification based on five genes plus morphology". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (41): 15118–15123. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604033103. PMID 17015826. Bibcode: 2006PNAS..10315118D.
- ↑ Danforth, Bryan (2007). "Bees-a primer". Current Biology 17 (5): 156–161. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.025. PMID 17339010. http://www.danforthlab.entomology.cornell.edu/files/all/danforth2007.pdf.
- ↑ Hedtke, Shannon H. (2013). "The bee tree of life: a supermatrix approach to apoid phylogeny and biogeography". BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (138): 138. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-138. PMID 23822725.
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