Melitoma Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville 1828

Melitoma is a genus of chimney bees in the family Apidae. There are about 13 described species in Melitoma.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Found in the Nearctic and Neotropics.^[4]

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Melitoma:

• Melitoma ameghinoi (Holmberg, 1903) ^{i c g}
• Melitoma bifax Vachal, 1909 ^{i c g}
• Melitoma grisella (Cockerell & Porter, 1899) ^{i c g}
• Melitoma ipomoearum Ducke, 1913 ^{i c g}
• Melitoma marginella (Cresson, 1872) ^{i c g b}
• Melitoma nudicauda Cockerell, 1949 ^{i c g}
• Melitoma nudipes (Burmeister, 1876) ^{i c g}
• Melitoma osmioides (Ducke, 1908) ^{i c g}
• Melitoma segmentaria (Fabricius, 1804) ^{i c g}
• Melitoma strenua (Holmberg, 1903) ^{i c g}
• Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837) ^{i c g b} (mallow bee)

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[1] c = Catalogue of Life,^[2] g = GBIF,^[3] b = Bugguide.net^[4]

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