Megachilidae

family of insects

Taxon Taxon Q530200

Facts

6 properties

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: bee, Apoidea^[3]^[4]
Start time: -45000000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[6]
Taxon common name: Leaf-cutter Bees, Mason Bees, and allies, Buksamlarbin, miesierkowate, buksamlerbier^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
Taxon name: Megachilidae^[5]
Taxon rank: family^[2]

🏷️ Also known as

en Megachilidae ar النحل القارض ar نحليات قارضة cs čalounicovití cs Megachilidae da Megachilidae da Bugsamlerbier fa برگ‌بران fi Megachilidae fi vatsaharjamehiläiset he גוזרות עלים hu Megachilidae hu művészméhek ja ハキリバチ科 ko 가위벌과 pl Megachilidae pl miesierkowate ru Megachilidae ru мегахилиды sv Buksamlarbin

🔖 Identifiers · 35

OpenAlex ID: C2781441424
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Anthidium manicatum male.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID: Megachilidae
Australian Faunal Directory ID: Megachilidae
BOLD Systems taxon ID: 443
BugGuide taxon ID: 84
Catalogue of Life ID: CGP
Dyntaxa ID: 2001181
EPPO Code: 1MEGCF
Encyclopedia of Life ID: 7500
Fossilworks taxon ID: 72088
Freebase ID: /m/01yryk

Show all 35 identifiers +23

GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update): 7911
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: megaquilids
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0274041
Harper's tag: megachilidae
INaturalist taxon ID: 52777
IRMNG ID: 101788
ITIS TSN: 154365
Insects (Insecta) of the World ID: 924435
Interlingual Index ID: i47111
J9U entity ID: 987007562925705171
KBpedia ID: Megachilidae
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2781441424
NBIC scientific name ID: 119620
NBN System Key: NBNSYS0000160390
NCBI taxonomy ID: 124286
New Zealand Organisms Register ID: 8c705677-1737-4a02-a1b4-6772b537e771
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID: 3940794
Open Tree of Life ID: 135469
Plazi ID: D639CC5C-2F00-4A60-C9FB-75DB1D39C933, D639CC5C-2F06-4A60-C9FB-71C61C69CD5B
Topic's main category: Category:Megachilidae
UMLS CUI: C1059944
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 02213751-n
Yale LUX ID: concept/72338b56-703a-4721-b328-04452e65575e

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🔗 Connections

← Parent taxon 41

Megachile, Anthidium, Coelioxys, Stelis, Hoplitis, Heriades, Lithurgus, Megachilinae +33 more

Parent taxon 2

bee, Apoidea

Instance of 1

taxon

Taxon rank 1

family

Topic's main category 1

Category:Megachilidae

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Category:Megachilidae

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Summary

Megachilidae is a taxon^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Megachilidae — taxon rank (P105): family. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-10-22. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Megachilidae — parent taxon (P171): bee. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Megachilidae — parent taxon (P171): Apoidea. Order Hymenoptera. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Megachilidae — taxon name (P225): Megachilidae. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-10-22. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Megachilidae — start time (P580): 45000000 BC. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Megachilidae — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Leaf-cutter Bees, Mason Bees, and allies'}. BugGuide. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Megachilidae — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'sv', 'text': 'Buksamlarbin'}. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Megachilidae — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'miesierkowate'}. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Megachilidae — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'buksamlerbier'}. Retrieved 2022-09-13. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Megachilidae is an instance of taxon (Q16521) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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5w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Insects (Insecta) of the World ID → 924435

"Created claim: Insects (Insecta) of the World ID: 924435, batch #280866"
10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → megachilidae

"Created claim: Harper's tag: megachilidae, Matched to megachilidae (#289948313) in Harper's tag…"
12w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Interlingual Index ID → i47111

WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 02213751-n

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #47825: OENN batch"
24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Start time → 450000th century BC

Parent taxon → bee, Apoidea

Instance of → taxon

Taxon rank → family

+ 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007562925705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"

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