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Melitta

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Melittidae

Taxonomy
Melitta was named by Kirby (1802). It is extant.

It was assigned to Hymenoptera by Kirby (1802); to Melittinae by Zeuner and Manning (1976); to Melittidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Melittini by Engel (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1802Melitta Kirby p. 130
1976Melitta Zeuner and Manning p. 175
1992Melitta Carpenter
2001Melitta Engel

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyMelittidae
subfamilyMelittinae
tribeMelittini
genusMelitta

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Melitta Kirby 1802
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available