Mesocheira

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Apoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Apidae
Subfamilia: Apinae
Tribus: Ericrocidini
Genus: Mesocheira
Species: M. bicolor

Name

Mesocheira Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825

Type species: Melecta bicolor Fabricius, 1804 by subsequent designation. [Taschenberg, E. (1883). Die Gattungen der Bienen (Anthophila). Berl. Entomol. Z. 27(1): 37–100.]

References

Lepeletier, A.L.M. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1825. [Articles] pp. 1–344 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris.
Snelling, R.R. & Brooks, R.W. 1985. A review of the genera of cleptoparasitic bees of the tribe Ericrocini (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 369: 1–34.