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Bees of the World.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Michener, Charles D. (Charles Duncan), 1918-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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