Insecta - Hymenoptera

Full reference: A. Dewulf and M. S. Engel. 2014. Taxonomic names, in A new interpretation of the bee fossil Melitta willardi Cockerell (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) based on geometric morphometrics of the wing. ZooKeys 389:35-48

Parent taxon: Andreninae according to S. Bossert et al. 2022

See also Dewulf and Engel 2014 and Engel 2021

Sister taxa: Andrenini, Lithandrena, Pelandrena

Subtaxa: Andrenopteryx willardi

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Type: Melitta willardi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (Rusk, Duce 1909 coll) (Eocene of Colorado)

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