The bees of the world / Charles D. Michener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michener, Charles D. (Charles Duncan), 1918-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bees--Classification.

Bees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (972 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Accented with color plates of select bees, The Bees of the World will continue to be the world's best reference on these diverse insects.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Abbreviations

1. About Bees and This Book

2. What Are Bees?

3. The Importance of Bees

4. Development and Reproduction

5. Solitary versus Social Life

6. Floral Relationships of Bees

7. Nests and Food Storage

8. Parasitic and Robber Bees

9. Body Form, Tagmata, and Sex Differences

10. Structures and Anatomical Terminology of Adults

11. Structures and Terminology of Immature Stages

12. Bees and Sphecoid Wasps as a Clade

13. Bees as a Monophyletic Group

14. The Origin of Bees from Wasps

15. Classification of the Bee-Sphecoid Clade

16. Bee Taxa and Categories

17. Methods of Classification

18. The History of Bee Classifications

19. Short-Tongued versus Long-Tongued Bees

20. Family-Level Phylogeny and the Proto-Bee

21. The Higher Classification of Bees

22. Fossil Bees

23. The Geological History of Bees

24. Diversity and Abundance

25. Dispersal

26. Biogeography

27. Reduction or Loss of Structures

28. New and Modified Structures

29. Family-Group Names

30. Explanation of Taxonomic Accounts in Sections 36 to 121

31. Some Problematic Taxa

32. The Identification of Bees

33. Key to the Families, Based on Adults

34. Notes on Certain Couplets in the Key to Families (Section 33)

35. Practical Key to Family-Group Taxa, Based on Females

36. Family Stenotritidae

37. Family Colletidae

38. Subfamily Colletinae

39. Tribe Paracolletini

40. Tribe Colletini

41. Tribe Scraptrini

42. Subfamily Diphaglossinae

43. Tribe Caupolicanini

44. Tribe Diphaglossini

45. Tribe Dissoglottini

46. Subfamily Xeromelissinae

47. Subfamily Hylaeinae

48. Subfamily Euryglossinae

49. Family Andrenidae

50. Subfamily Alocandreninae

51. Subfamily Andreninae.

52. Subfamily Panurginae

53. Tribe Protandrenini

54. Tribe Panurgini

55. Tribe Nolanomelissini

56. Tribe Melitturgini

57. Tribe Protomeliturgini

58. Tribe Perditini

59. Tribe Calliopsini

60. Subfamily Oxaeinae

61. Family Halictidae

62. Subfamily Rophitinae

63. Subfamily Nomiinae

64. Subfamily Nomioidinae

65. Subfamily Halictinae

66. Tribe Halictini

67. Tribe Augochlorini

68. Family Melittidae

69. Subfamily Dasypodainae

70. Tribe Dasypodaini

71. Tribe Promelittini

72. Tribe Sambini

73. Subfamily Meganomiinae

74. Subfamily Melittinae

75. Family Megachilidae

76. Subfamily Fideliinae

77. Tribe Pararhophitini

78. Tribe Fideliini

79. Subfamily Megachilinae

80. Tribe Lithurgini

81. Tribe Osmiini

82. Tribe Anthidiini

83. Tribe Dioxyini

84. Tribe Megachilini

85. Family Apidae

86. Subfamily Xylocopinae

87. Tribe Manueliini

88. Tribe Xylocopini

89. Tribe Ceratinini

90. Tribe Allodapini

91. Subfamily Nomadinae

92. Tribe Hexepeolini

93. Tribe Brachynomadini

94. Tribe Nomadini

95. Tribe Epeolini

96. Tribe Ammobatoidini

97. Tribe Biastini

98. Tribe Townsendiellini

99. Tribe Neolarrini

100. Tribe Ammobatini

101. Tribe Caenoprosopidini

102. Subfamily Apinae

103. Tribe Isepeolini

104. Tribe Osirini

105. Tribe Protepeolini

106. Tribe Exomalopsini

107. Tribe Ancylini

108. Tribe Tapinotaspidini

109. Tribe Tetrapediini

110. Tribe Ctenoplectrini

111. Tribe Emphorini

112. Tribe Eucerini

113. Tribe Anthophorini

114. Tribe Centridini

115. Tribe Rhathymini

116. Tribe Ericrocidini

117. Tribe Melectini

118. Tribe Euglossini

119. Tribe Bombini

120. Tribe Meliponini

121. Tribe Apini

Literature Cited

Addenda

Index of Terms

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I.

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Index of Taxa

I

J

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 833-904) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8018-9220-1

1-4356-9259-4

OCLC:

646769600