Megachilidae
TaxID: 124286
Basic Information
Megachilidae
Leafcutting Bees, Mason Bee, leafcutter bees
Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees. Characteristic traits of this family are the restriction of their pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families) and their typically elongated labra. Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting the materials from which they build their nest cells (soil or leaves, respectively); a few collect plant or animal hairs and fibers, and are called carder bees, while others use plant resins in nest construction and are correspondingly called resin bees. All species feed on nectar and pollen, but a few are kleptoparasites (informally called "cuckoo bees"), feeding on pollen collected by other megachilid bees. Parasitic species do not possess scopae. The motion of Megachilidae in the reproductive structures of flowers is energetic and swimming-like; this agitation releases large amounts of pollen.
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Taxonomic Information
Eukaryota
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
unclassified
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Family
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k__Eukaryota;p__Arthropoda;c__Insecta;o__Hymenoptera;f__Megachilidae;g__unclassified;s__unclassified
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Arthropods
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Morphological Features
No morphological description available.
Host Plants (0 host plants)
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Quarantine Status (1 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
| Country | Status | Year Added |
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| United States of America | Quarantine pests | — |
Distribution (0 countries)
Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.
No distribution records available.
Genomes (0 records)
Data source: NCBI.
No genome records available.
Transcriptomes (2 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Run ID | Tissue | Developmental Stage | Sex | Read Count | Location | Actions |
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| SRR34339538 | BRAIN | adult | female | 24460104 | United Kingdom | |
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PRJNA1285376 SRX29505049 SRP597535 insect RNA-Seq of Osmia bicornis: Adult female brain NEBNext. Ultra II Directional RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina GC-CM-10501-OB6_S19_R1_001 {'age': '14 days after pupation', 'sex': 'female', 'temp': '24℃', 'tissue': 'BRAIN', 'isolate': 'GC-CM-10501-OB6_S19_R1_001', 'dev_stage': 'adult', 'collected_by': 'Alicja Witwicka', 'geo_loc_name': 'United Kingdom', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2022-04'} |
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| SRR36303868 | abdomen (25mg) | adult | female | 122333589 | Canada: Nourse, Manitoba | |
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PRJNA1125475 SRX31336244 SRP530481 insect RNA-Seq analysis sequencing of Dianthidium simile: adult abdomen (25mg) tissue (CBP01272B) RNA-Seq analysis of normal adult abdomen (25mg) tissue (CBP01272B) (library ID CBP01272_MURNALIB01), constructed from sample accession SAMN50521072 for study accession PRJNA1125475. DNA extractions were performed at McGill Genome Centre (Montreal, QC, Canada) using the QIAGEN - Rneasy Mini kit with Extra Chloroforme isoamyle initial step. Sequencing was performed at McGill Genome Centre (Montreal, QC, Canada) using the Illumina NovaSeq X. CBP01272B {'sex': 'female', 'tolid': 'iyDiaSimi3', 'lab id': 'Ext524', 'tissue': 'abdomen (25mg)', 'isolate': 'CBP01272B', 'lat_lon': '49.914 N 96.433 W', 'dev_stage': 'adult', 'store_cond': 'placed live into -80C', 'common name': 'northeastern pebble bee', 'sample_type': 'tissue sample', 'collected_by': 'Jason Gibbs, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada', 'geo_loc_name': 'Canada: Nourse, Manitoba', 'cbp sample id': 'CBP01272B', 'identified by': 'Jason Gibbs, J.B. Wallis / R.E. Roughley Museum of Entomology, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada', 'biosamplemodel': 'Model organism or animal', 'collection_date': '2022-07-25', 'mcgill sample id': 'CBP01272_MURNA01', 'specimen_voucher': 'WRME0520069, J.B. Wallis / R.E. Roughley Museum of Entomology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada', 'cbp individual id': 'NortheasternPebbleBee05', 'external sample id': 'WRME0520069', 'biomaterial_provider': 'Jason Gibbs, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada', 'sample derived from (cbp id)': 'CBP01272', 'sample derived from (biosample id)': 'SAMN50521046'} |
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