Triepeolus

Triepeolus
Triepeolus concavus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Subfamily:	Nomadinae
Tribe:	Epeolini
Subtribe:	Thalestriina
Genus:	Triepeolus Robertson, 1901

Triepeolus is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 140 described species in the genus Triepeolus. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} The majority of species whose life history is known are kleptoparasitic in the nests of bees in the tribe Eucerini, especially the genera Melissodes and Svastra .

Triepeolus simplex

See also

• List of Triepeolus species

References

1. "Triepeolus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
2. "Triepeolus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
3. Sharkey M.J. (2007). Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera.
4. "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera", Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.

• Michener, Charles D. (2007). The Bees of the World, Second Edition, xvi + 953.
• Moure, J. S., and G. A. R. Melo / Moure, Jesus Santiago, Danúncia Urban, and Gabriel A. R. Melo, org (2007). "Nomadini Latreille, 1802". Catalogue of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the neotropical region, 578–599.
• Rightmyer, Molly G. (2004). "Phylogeny and classification of the parasitic bee tribe Epeolini (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Nomadinae)". Scientific Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas, no. 33, 1-51.
• Rightmyer, Molly G. (2008). "A review of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Part I".Zootaxa

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Triepeolus
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.