Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Although this tribe is represented in the Palaearctic and Ethiopian regions by several genera, only the Nearctic genus Oreopasites is present in the New World and its species are apparently all cleptoparasitic in the nests of the andrenid genera Nomadopsis and Hypomacrotera.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
