Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Caenohalictini is a member of the Subfamily Halictinae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Caenohalictini:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Superorder: Hymenopterida
- Order: Hymenoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Ants, Bees, and Wasps
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Ants, Bees
- Superfamily: Apoidea
Latreille, 1802
- Family: Halictidae
Thomson, 1869, nom. protect. - halictid bees, sweat bees
- Subfamily: Halictinae
- Tribe: Caenohalictini
- Subfamily: Halictinae
- Family: Halictidae
Thomson, 1869, nom. protect. - halictid bees, sweat bees
- Superfamily: Apoidea
Latreille, 1802
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Ants, Bees
- Order: Hymenoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Ants, Bees, and Wasps
- Superorder: Hymenopterida
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Tribe Caenohalictini is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subtribe (2): Agapostemonina · Caenohalictina
- Genus (2): Agapostemon · Caenohalictus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 103 species and subspecies in the Tribe Caenohalictini.
Genera
Agapostemon
The genus Agapostemon is a common group of Western hemisphere sweat bees of generally green or blue appearance (head and thorax always, sometimes also the abdomen in some females). There are some 45 species in the genus, ranging from Canada to Argentina. They superficially resemble various members of the tribe , which are typically metallic greenish in appearance. Members of this genus are commonly referred to as metallic green bees. [more]
Caenohalictus
At least 54 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Caenohalictus.
More info about the Genus Caenohalictus may be found here.
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