Ancylaini

Ancylaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Apidae
Subfamily: Apinae
Tribe: Ancylaini

The Ancylaini are a tribe of apid bees. The name was fixed by an ICZN opinion to differentiate it from the Ancylini tribe of fresh-water molluscs.[1]

Genera

References

  1. ICZN (March 2010). "Opinion 2246 (Case 3461) Ancylini Michener, 1944 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): spelling emended to Ancylaini to remove homonymy with Ancylini Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67 (1): 116–117. Retrieved 25 Jul 2013.