†tribe Melikertini Engel 2001 (bee)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2001. A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 259:1-192
Parent taxon: Corbiculata according to M. S. Engel 2021
See also Engel 2001 and Engel and Ortega-Blanco 2013
Sister taxa: Apini, Bombini, Electrapini, Electrobombini, Euglossini, Meliponini
Subtaxa: Aethemelikertes Amelikertotes Haidomelikertes Melikertes Melissites Mochlomelikertes Roussyana Succinapis
Type: Electrapis (Melikertes)
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (2 collections), India (1), Lithuania (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (12)
Total: 17 collections including 30 occurrences