Rhathymini

Rhathymini
Rhathymus sp. (female)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Subfamily: Apinae
Tribe: Rhathymini
Lepeletier, 1841

The Rhathymini are a tribe of kleptoparasitic apid bees ("cuckoo bees").[1][2]

  1. ^ Martins, Aline C.; Luz, David R.; Melo, Gabriel A. R. (July 2018). "Palaeocene origin of the N eotropical lineage of cleptoparasitic bees E ricrocidini- R hathymini ( H ymenoptera, A pidae)". Systematic Entomology. 43 (3): 510–521. Bibcode:2018SysEn..43..510M. doi:10.1111/syen.12286. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 89660405.
  2. ^ Michener, Charles D. (2007). The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8573-0.