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Melittidae

family of insects
Taxon Taxon Q1006091
Melittidae
K. Seltmann (seltmann@scs.fsu.edu) and Chantelle Dorsey (chantelle.dorsey@gmail.com) · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Apoidea[2]
Taxon common name
Melittid Bees, blomsterbier[4][5]
Taxon name
Melittidae[3]
Taxon rank
family[1]
🏷️ Also known as
en Melittidae ar فصيلة ميليتيدي cs Pilorožkovití da Sommerbier es Melitidos es Melítidos fr Mélittidé fr Mélittidés hu Melittidae hu földiméhek it Melittinae ja ケアシハナバチ科 ru Melittidae ru Мелиттиды sv Melittidae sv Sommarbin zh 准蜂科 zh-hant 準蜂科
🔖 Identifiers · 23
BOLD Systems taxon ID
469
BugGuide taxon ID
182875
Catalogue of Life ID
CKN
Dyntaxa ID
2001180
Encyclopedia of Life ID
7501
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/melittid
Fossilworks taxon ID
70785
Freebase ID
/m/0dzfdj
GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)
4345
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1231g0dw
INaturalist taxon ID
154651
IRMNG ID
101014
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ITIS TSN
154364
Insects (Insecta) of the World ID
924222
J9U entity ID
987007563010905171
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780933609
NBIC scientific name ID
119609
NBN System Key
NBNSYS0000160398
NCBI taxonomy ID
156323
Open Tree of Life ID
584922
Topic's main category
Category:Melittidae
UMLS CUI
C1074662
Yale LUX ID
concept/97ba662b-11fb-44ff-ac6d-d816ee096806

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 7
Macropis, Dasypodainae, Rediviva, Hesperapis, Eremaphanta, Haplomelitta, Meganomiinae
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Apoidea
Taxon rank 1
family
Topic's main category 1
Category:Melittidae
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Melittidae
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  1. [1] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-10-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Insects (Insecta) of the World ID → 924222
    "Created claim: Insects (Insecta) of the World ID: 924222, batch #292012"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Apoidea
    Instance of → taxon
    Taxon rank → family
    Topic's main category → Category:Melittidae
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007563010905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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