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Subfamily Dasypodainae Börner
[Family Melittidae]
The subfamily is found in the Palearctic region, in North America (mostly western) and, in Africa. Three tribes are recognized in Dasypodainae namely, Promelittini, Dasypodaini and Sambini. Among these first one reaches upto our flexible area of western region to Indian region. With regard to tribe Dasypodaini, many illustrations of structures and phylogenetic tree were presented by Michener (1981), for immatures Rozen and McGinley (1974) and Rozen (1978), for nestings Muller (1884), Malyshev (1927), Blagoveshchenskaya (1963), Lind (1968) and, Radchenko (1987).
Promelittini occurs in Egypt and possibly in South Africa. Warncke (1977) proposed genus (as a subgenus of Melitta) Promelitta, the lone genus constituent of the tribe. Sambini is distributed in eastern and southern Africa, mostly confined to xeric areas. Michener (1981) described phylogeny of this tribe.
Tribe Dasypodaini
S. No.
Name of Genus with Author
Included subgenera and [no. of species]
Distribution
1.
Genus Dasypoda Latreille, 1802
- [25]
Palearctic region from Portugal and the Canaary Islands to Japan; abundant in Mediterranean basin
2.
Genus Eremaphanta Popov, 1940
a. Eremaphanta Popov, 1940 s.str. [6]
b. Popovapis Michener, 1981 [2]
a. Central Asian deserts and Iran
b. Central Asia to Pakistan (Baluchistan)
3. Genus Hesperapis Cockerell, 1998 CE 30: p.147 Subgenera of Hesperapis North America and Africa
Tribe Promelittini
S. No.
Name of Genus with Author
Included subgenera and [no. of species]
Distribution
1.
Genus Promelitta Warncke, 1977
- [1]
Promelitta alboclypeata [Friese, 1900(Dufourea)]
Egypt; Michener (1981) stated probability that a South African species P. plumipes (Friese) known from a single female, has also been tentatively included for lack of better place to put it, but it may well fall in the Dasypodaini (Michener, 2000)
Tribe Sambini
S. No.
Name of Genus with Author
Included subgenera and [no. of species]
Distribution
1.
Genus Haplomelitta Cockerell, 1934 AMNH 10(13): P.446
a. Atrosamba Michener, 1981 [1]
[Haplomelitta atra Michener]
b. Haplomelitta Cockerell, 1934 s.str. [1]
[Haplomelitta ogiliviei (Cockerell)]
c. Haplosamba Michener, 1981 [1]
[Haplomelitta tridentata Michener]
d. Metasamba Michener, 1981 [1]
[Haplomelitta fasciata Michener]
e. Prosamba Michener, 1981 [1]
[Haplomelita griseonigra Michener]
a. western Cape Province, South Africa
b. South Africa
c. western Cape Province, South Africa
d. Namibia
e. western South Africa
2.
Genus Samba Friese, 1908
- [1]
[Samba calcarata Friese]
Kenya & Tanzania
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