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1 online resource (972 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Abbreviations -- 1. About Bees and This Book -- 2. What Are Bees? -- 3. The Importance of Bees -- 4. Development and Reproduction -- 5. Solitary versus Social Life -- 6. Floral Relationships of Bees -- 7. Nests and Food Storage -- 8. Parasitic and Robber Bees -- 9. Body Form, Tagmata, and Sex Differences -- 10. Structures and Anatomical Terminology of Adults -- 11. Structures and Terminology of Immature Stages -- 12. Bees and Sphecoid Wasps as a Clade |
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13. Bees as a Monophyletic Group14. The Origin of Bees from Wasps -- 15. Classification of the Bee-Sphecoid Clade -- 16. Bee Taxa and Categories -- 17. Methods of Classification -- 18. The History of Bee Classifications -- 19. Short-Tongued versus Long-Tongued Bees -- 20. Family-Level Phylogeny and the Proto-Bee -- 21. The Higher Classification of Bees -- 22. Fossil Bees -- 23. The Geological History of Bees -- 24. Diversity and Abundance -- 25. Dispersal -- 26. Biogeography -- 27. Reduction or Loss of Structures -- 28. New and Modified Structures |
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29. Family-Group Names30. Explanation of Taxonomic Accounts in Sections 36 to 121 -- 31. Some Problematic Taxa -- 32. The Identification of Bees -- 33. Key to the Families, Based on Adults -- 34. Notes on Certain Couplets in the Key to Families (Section 33) -- 35. Practical Key to Family-Group Taxa, Based on Females -- 36. Family Stenotritidae -- 37. Family Colletidae -- 38. Subfamily Colletinae -- 39. Tribe Paracolletini -- 40. Tribe Colletini -- 41. Tribe Scraptrini -- 42. Subfamily Diphaglossinae -- 43. Tribe Caupolicanini -- 44. Tribe Diphaglossini |
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45. Tribe Dissoglottini46. Subfamily Xeromelissinae -- 47. Subfamily Hylaeinae -- 48. Subfamily Euryglossinae -- 49. Family Andrenidae -- 50. Subfamily Alocandreninae -- 51. Subfamily Andreninae -- 52. Subfamily Panurginae -- 53. Tribe Protandrenini -- 54. Tribe Panurgini -- 55. Tribe Nolanomelissini -- 56. Tribe Melitturgini -- 57. Tribe Protomeliturgini -- 58. Tribe Perditini -- 59. Tribe Calliopsini -- 60. Subfamily Oxaeinae -- 61. Family Halictidae -- 62. Subfamily Rophitinae -- 63. Subfamily Nomiinae -- 64. Subfamily Nomioidinae |
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65. Subfamily Halictinae66. Tribe Halictini -- 67. Tribe Augochlorini -- 68. Family Melittidae -- 69. Subfamily Dasypodainae -- 70. Tribe Dasypodaini -- 71. Tribe Promelittini -- 72. Tribe Sambini -- 73. Subfamily Meganomiinae -- 74. Subfamily Melittinae -- 75. Family Megachilidae -- 76. Subfamily Fideliinae -- 77. Tribe Pararhophitini -- 78. Tribe Fideliini -- 79. Subfamily Megachilinae -- 80. Tribe Lithurgini -- 81. Tribe Osmiini -- 82. Tribe Anthidiini -- 83. Tribe Dioxyini -- 84. Tribe Megachilini -- 85. Family Apidae |
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""86. Subfamily Xylocopinae"" |
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Print version record |
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Bees -- Classification
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Bees
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| Genre/Form |
Classification
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780801892202 |
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0801892201 |
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