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Overview
Brief Summary
Melissodes spp. are small to medium sized bees, ranging from 7.5 to 18 mm long. They are robust with fuzzy yellow hairs and conspicuous hairy legs. The front part of the female's face is usually yellow. Like most bees in the tribe Eucerini, males have long antennae. Males are long-bodied, while females have short antennae and are round-bodied. These bees are restricted to the New World.
Melissodes spp are generally solitary bees. Solitary bees usually build and live in individual nests rather than in a hive or with a colony of bees, while social or communal bees do live colonially in hives or bee communities.
- The Great Sunflower Project: Melissodes (L. Schonberg, M. Vaughan, and G. LeBuhn, The Great Sunflower Project)
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Physical Description
Type Information
Catalog Number: USNM
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology
Sex/Stage: Male;
Preparation: Pinned
Locality: Tex., Texas, United States
- Lectotype: 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 4: 281.
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Ecology
Associations
Flowering Plants Visited by Melissodes sp. in Illinois
(observations are from Clinebell, Conger, and Estes & Thorp)
Asteraceae: Pyrrhopappus carolinianus cp (ET); Lamiaceae: Monarda fistulosa sn/cp (Cl), Teucrium canadense sn/cp (Cng)
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Hilty, J. Editor. 2013. Insect Visitors of Illinois Wildflowers. World Wide Web electronic publication. illinoiswildflowers.info, version (05/2013)
See: Abbreviations for Insect Activities, Abbreviations for Scientific Observers, References for behavioral observations
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Life History and Behavior
Life Cycle
Most Melissodes spp. are solitary ground-nesters. However, there are some species that nest communally with several individuals using one burrow. Females line each brood cell with a wax-like material that she secretes. Each cell is provisioned with a nectar and pollen mixture and a single egg. Larvae hatch and turn into pupae. After a period of inactivity, adult bees emerge.
- The Great Sunflower Project: Melissodes (L. Schonberg, M. Vaughan, and G. LeBuhn, The Great Sunflower Project)
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Sp.5
No available public DNA sequences.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Sp.5
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes PER01
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes MEX03
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes MEX02
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes sp1-1841
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes sp4-1394
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Sp.4
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Sp.4
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Sp.3
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Sp.3
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.E
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.E
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.D
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.D
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.C
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.C
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.B
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.B
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.A
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Eumel.A
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.E
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.E
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.D
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.D
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.C
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.C
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes BC11
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes BC5
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes BC4
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes BC2
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 11
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes BC1
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes OR2
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes OR1
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.B
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.B
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.A
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes SanDiego Callimel.A
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Barcode data: Melissodes cf. communis alopex
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes cf. communis alopex
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes ARGZ02
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes ARGZ01
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes sp. 3nv
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Melissodes sp. 1nv
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage
| Specimen Records: | 455 | Public Records: | 28 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 361 | Public Species: | 25 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 329 | Public BINs: | 11 |
| Species: | 107 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 81 | ||
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Barcode data
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Locations of barcode samples
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