kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Hymenoptera >
superfamily: Apoidea >
family: Melittidae >
subfamily: Melittinae >
tribe: Melittini >
subtribe: Melittina >
genus: Melitta Kirby, 1802 >
species: Melitta aegyptiaca (Radoszkowski, 1891) >
Africa