// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was Mesoplia mad? It had a bee in its genus.
| Mesoplia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Tribe: | Ericrocidini |
| Genus: | Mesoplia Lepeletier, 1841 |
Mesoplia is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are 17 described species in Mesoplia.[1]
Species
[edit]- Mesoplia alboguttata (Ducke, 1905)
- Mesoplia azurea (Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825)
- Mesoplia bifrons (Fabricius, 1804)
- Mesoplia chalybaea (Friese, 1912)
- Mesoplia decorata (Smith, 1854)
- Mesoplia dugesi (Cockerell, 1917)
- Mesoplia friesei (Ducke, 1902)
- Mesoplia guatemalensis Cockerell, 1912
- Mesoplia guedesii (Ducke, 1902)
- Mesoplia imperatrix (Friese, 1913)
- Mesoplia insignis (Smith, 1879)
- Mesoplia ornata (Spinola, 1841)
- Mesoplia pilicrus (Friese, 1902)
- Mesoplia regalis (Smith, 1854)
- Mesoplia rufipes (Perty, 1833)
- Mesoplia sapphirina Melo and Rocha-Filho, 2011
- Mesoplia simillima Schrottky, 1920
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D. (1979). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.