Superfamily APOIDEA 2007 



Type-species: Apis truncorum Linnaeus. Monotypic. 

 This subgenus is not found in America. 



Genus HERIADES Subgenus NEOTRYPETES Robertson 



Neotrypetes Robertson, 1918. Ent. News 29: 92. 



Type-species: Megachile variolosa Cresson. Monotypic and orig. desig. (=Trypetes 

 productus Robertson). 



Taxonomy: Michener, 1954. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 27: 68-69 (rev. key to spp.). 

 crucifera Cockerell. N. Mex., Ariz. 



Heriades crucifera Cockerell, 1897. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 20: 137. 6. 

 leavitti Crawford. N. B. and Maine, south to Fla., west to Tex. and Wyo. Pollen: Polylectic, 

 visits a wide variety of flowers including Anthemis cotiilla, Bidens, Clirysopsis, 

 Erigeron, Galax, Helenium, Ilex, Jussiaea, Melilotus officinalis, Oenothera, Polygonum, 

 Senecio, Solidago, Stokesia. 

 Heriades leavitti Crawford, 1913. Canad. Ent. 45: 270. 6. 

 Heriades crawfordi Graenicher, 1928. Ent. News 39: 281. 9,6. 

 '^Neotrypetes tmncatus Robertson, 1929. Flowers and Insects, p. 131. 9,6- 



Biology: Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 278-279 (nest architecture, life 

 history). 

 micheneri Timberlake. Ariz. 



Heriades (Neotrypetes) micheneri Timberlake, 1947. Pan-Pacific Ent. 23: 26. 6, 9. 

 micropthalma Michener. Deserts of west. Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., Utah. Pollen: Apparently 



polylectic, visits flowers of Melilotus officinalis, Monarda, Petalosfemon, Tetradyniia 

 canescens. 

 Heriades micropthalma Michener, 1954. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 27: 66, 2 figs. 9, 6 . 

 texana Michener. Tex., Ariz. 



Heriades texana Michener, 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 517. 9. 

 variolosa purpurascens Cockerell. South. Tex. to Yucatan. 



Heriades carinata purpurascens Cockerell, 1931. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 8: 543. 9. 



Taxonomy: Michener, 1949. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 22: 43. 

 variolosa variolosa (Cresson). Ont. and Maine, south to Fla., west to B. C, Wash., Oreg., Utah, 

 Colo., N. Mex. and Tex; Mexico (northern). Ecology: Nests in twigs of sumac. Pollen: 

 Polylectic, principally Compositae, but visits a wide variety of flowers including 

 Amorpha, Apocynum, Asclepias, Aster, Berteroa, Bidens, Blephilia, Brassica, 

 Ceanothus, Cirsiu7n, Coreopsis, Erigeron philadelphicus, Grindelia, Gutierrezia 

 sarothrae, Helianthus, Heliopsis helianthoides, Houstonia, Malva silvestris, Melilotus 

 alba, Mentha cayiadejisis, Monarda, Parthenium, Prunus, Ratibida, Senecio, Solidago 

 rigida, Thelesperma gracile. Toxicodendron, Trifolium, Vernonia. 



Megachile vaiiolosa Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 270. 9. 



Heriades odontophora Schletterer, 1889. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. System., Geog. u. Biol. Tiere 

 4: 679. 9. 



Heriades asteris Cockerell, 1897. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 20: 135. 6. 



Trypetes barbatus Robertson, 1903. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 29: 171. 6 (9 misdet). 



Try petes productus Robertson, 1905. Canad. Ent. 37: 236. 6. 



Biology: Fischer, 1955. Canad. Ent. 87: 33-36 (nest). 



Genus HERIADES Subgenus PHYSOSTETHA Michener 



Heriades subg. Physostetha Michener, 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 523. 

 Type-species: Heriades carinata Cresson. Orig. desig. 

 carinata Cresson. N. B. and Que. to Fla., west to B. C, Oreg., Utah, N. Mex., and Tex. 



Parasite: Leucospis affinis Say, Melittobia chalyhii Ashm., Sapyga louisi Krombein, 

 Stelis penuaculata Ckll., S. vemalis Mitchell. Pollen: Polylectic, visits a wide variety of 

 flowers including Apocynum, Aronia, Asclepias syriaca, Cichoriu)n iutybus, Cleome 



