| Full name: |
World Bee Checklist |
| 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 - Ampulicidae, Andrenidae, Apidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Heterogynaidae, Megachilidae, Melittidae, Sphecidae, Stenotritidae |
| English name of the group: |
Bees |
|
Number of living species |
20,446 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
660 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
2,654 |
| Number of common names: |
58 |
| Total number of names: |
23,818 |
| 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: J.S. 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
|
| Bibliographic citation: |
Ruggiero M. (project leader), Ascher J. et al. (2017). ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist (version Sep 2009). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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