Svastra
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Apidae |
Tribe: | Eucerini |
Genus: | Svastra Holmberg, 1884 |
Svastra is a genus of long-horned bees in the family Apidae. There are at least 20 described species in Svastra.[1][2][3]
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Species
[edit]These 23 species belong to the genus Svastra:[2][3]
- Svastra aegis (LaBerge, 1956)
- Svastra albocollaris (Cockerell, 1918)
- Svastra atripes (Cresson, 1872)
- Svastra comanche (Cresson, 1872)
- Svastra compta (Cresson, 1878)
- Svastra cressonii (Dalla Torre, 1896)
- Svastra detecta Holmberg, 1884
- Svastra duplocincta (Cockerell, 1905)
- Svastra flavitarsis (Spinola, 1851)
- Svastra friesei LaBerge, 1958
- Svastra grandissima (Cockerell, 1905)
- Svastra helianthelli (Cockerell, 1905)
- Svastra machaerantherae (Cockerell, 1904)
- Svastra maculata Urban, 1998
- Svastra minima (LaBerge, 1956)
- Svastra nevadensis (Cresson, 1874)
- Svastra nitida (LaBerge, 1956)
- Svastra obliqua (Say, 1837) (sunflower bee)
- Svastra pallidior LaBerge, 1963
- Svastra petulca (Cresson, 1878)
- Svastra sabinensis (Cockerell, 1924)
- Svastra sila (LaBerge, 1956)
- Svastra texana (Cresson, 1872)
References
[edit]- ^ "Svastra Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ a b "Svastra Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ a b "Browse Svastra". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
External links
[edit]Media related to Svastra at Wikimedia Commons