Family Melittidae Kawall 1857 (bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Melittidae

Full reference: H. Kawall. 1857. Bienen in Kurland, mit Berücksichtigung von Livland. Correspondenzblatt des Naturforschenden Vereins zu Riga 9:73-80

Parent taxon: Anthophila according to M. S. Engel 2021

See also Carpenter 1992, Engel 2001, Hong 1984, Sann et al. 2018, Sharkey 2007 and Zeuner and Manning 1976

Sister taxa: Apidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Megachilidae, Paleomelittidae, Stenotritidae

Subtaxa: Macropidinae Melittinae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of China (1 collection)

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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