PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 
Vol. 92 Washington: 1943 No. 3156 
THE TYPE SPECIES OF THE GENERA AND SUBGENERA 
OF BEES 
By Grace A. SANDHOUSE } 
INTRODUCTION 
This paper? lists the genera and subgenera of the bees (super- 
family Apoidea) and in each case cites what is considered to be the 
earliest correct genotype designation. Dalla Torre’s Catalogus 
Hymenopterorum, the Zoological Record, and a card catalog of genera 
and species in the United States National Museum served as a basis 
for the preparation of this work. Emendations and some laps? have 
been included, but not all the typographical errors. Momina nuda 
are also recorded in order that possible uncertainty concerning the 
status of such names may be removed. 
The first generic name to be proposed for a group of bees was Apis 
Linnaeus, 1758. By 1800 only 4 other names had been added: Kucera 
and Nomada Scopoli, 1770; Andrena Fabricius, 1775; and Hylaeus 
Fabricius, 1793. Beginning with 1800, however, the number of gen- 
2 Although Miss Sandhouse had prepared the first draft of the manuscript before her 
death, she had no opportunity to review it critically and to put it into final form. 
P. W. Oman and I have attempted to do this. In the treatment of the names belonging in 
the Osmiinae and in the Bombidae we have been appreciably assisted by C. D. Michener 
? and Dr. T. H. Frison, respectively, and this aid is gratefully acknowledged. In accord 
with the practice followed in other lists of this kind a genus containing only one specific 
_ name treated as valid is regarded as monobasic, although one or more synonyms may have 
| been listed by the author of the generic name. Exceptions have been made, however, in 
the case of Abrupta Méhely, and of Fasciata Méhely, two names proposed since December 381, 
1930, when Article 25c of the International Rules became effective.—C. F. W. MUESEBECK, 
Division of Insect Identification, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. 8S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 
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