Database details
| Full name: | ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist |
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| Short name: | ITIS Bees |
| Version: | Sep 2009 |
| Release date: | 2009-09-28 |
| Authors/editors: | Ruggiero M. (project leader), Ascher J. et al. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Apodiea - Andrenidae, Apidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Megachilidae, Melittidae, Stenotritidae |
| English name of the group: | Bees |
| Number of species: | 20,455 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 662 |
| Number of synonyms: | 2,655 |
| Number of common names: | 64 |
| Total number of names: | 23,836 |
| Abstract: | Together with specialists around the world, ITIS has completed a checklist of the bee species of the world. The checklist (with some synonyms and subspecies) is integrated into the ITIS database. Project led by M Ruggiero (ITIS). Principal scientific contributors: JS Ascher (AMNH, USA), C Eardley (PPRI, South Africa), T Griswold (USDA, USA), G Melo (Federal University of Parana, Brazil), A Polaszek (NHM, UK), O Tadauchi (University of Kyushu, Japan), K Walker (Museum Victoria, Australia), N Warrit (NMNH, USA), and P Williams (NHM, UK). Principal technical contributors: D Nicolson (USGS, USA); J Pickering (Discover Life and University of Georgia, USA) and D Remsen (GBIF, Denmark). |
| Organization: | The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Website: |
http://www.itis.gov/beechecklist.html |