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Genus of bees

Lipotriches
Lipotriches sp. male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Halictidae
Subfamily: Nomiinae
Genus: Lipotriches
Gerstaecker, 1858
Subgenera

In biology, Lipotriches is a large genus of sweat bees in the family Halictidae, distributed widely throughout the Eastern Hemisphere though absent from Europe. There are nearly 200 species in 9 subgenera. They commonly have prominent bands of hair on the margins of the metasomal segments.

Description and biology

Members of this genus are important pollinators of plants, especially grasses, in fact 5 species of this genus from South Africa are recorded to gather grass pollen, with four doing so exclusively. They often have more slender bodies relative to other nomiine bees.

Species

References

  1. ^ Zhang, Dan; Niu, Ze-Qing; Pauly, Alain; Da, Wa; Zhu, Chao-Dong (2022-03-24). "A new species and a newly recorded subgenus of Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae, Nomiinae) from China". ZooKeys (1090): 103–111. Bibcode:2022ZooK.1090..103Z. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1090.75872. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8971123. PMID 35586843.
  2. Immelman, Kathleen; Eardley, Connal (2008-04-22). "Gathering of grass pollen by solitary bees (Halictidae, Lipotriches) in South Africa". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 76 (2): 263–268. doi:10.1002/mmnz.20000760208.
  3. Abdul Hannan, Md.; Maeta, Yasuo; Miyanaga, Ryôichi (2013-06-01). "Nesting biology and life cycle of Nomia (Acunomia) chalybeata Smith on Iriomote Island, southernmost Archipelago of Japan, with notes on the simultaneous occurrence of diapausing and non-diapausing prepupae within the same nests (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)". Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences. 12 (2): 91–99. doi:10.1016/j.jssas.2012.08.002. ISSN 1658-077X.
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