Protosmia is a genus of subgenus Chelostomopsis in the family Megachilidae. There are more than 30 described species in Protosmia.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Megachilidae |
| Subfamily: | Megachilinae |
| Tribe: | Osmiini |
| Genus: | Protosmia Ducke, 1900 |
Species edit
These 31 species belong to the genus Protosmia:
- Protosmia asensioi Griswold & Parker, 1987
- Protosmia burmanica (Bingham, 1897)
- Protosmia capitata (Schletterer, 1889)
- Protosmia decipiens (Benoist, 1935)
- Protosmia devia Tkalcu, 1978
- Protosmia exenterata (Pérez, 1896)
- Protosmia glutinosa (Giraud, 1871)
- Protosmia hamulifera Griswold, 2013
- Protosmia humeralis (Pérez, 1896)
- Protosmia judaica (Mavromoustakis, 1948)
- Protosmia limbata (Benoist, 1935)
- Protosmia longiceps (Friese, 1899)
- Protosmia luctuosa (Lucas, 1848)
- Protosmia magnicapitis (Stanek, 1969)
- Protosmia megaceps (Kohl, 1906)
- Protosmia minutula (Pérez, 1896)
- Protosmia monstrosa (Pérez, 1895)
- Protosmia montana
- Protosmia octomaculata (Pérez, 1895)
- Protosmia paradoxa (Friese, 1899)
- Protosmia pulex (Benoist, 1935)
- Protosmia querquedula van der Zanden, 1994
- Protosmia rubifloris (Cockerell, 1898)
- Protosmia schwarzi Griswold, 2013
- Protosmia sicula (Dalla Torre & Friese, 1895)
- Protosmia sideritis Tkalcu, 1978
- Protosmia stelidoides (Pérez, 1895)
- Protosmia stigmatica (Pérez, 1895)
- Protosmia tauricola Popov, 1961
- Protosmia tiflensis (Morawitz, 1876)
- Protosmia trifida Griswold, 2013
References edit
- ^ "Protosmia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Protosmia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Protosmia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
Further reading edit
- Griswold, Terry (1986). "Notes on the Nesting Biology of Protosmia (Chelostomopsis) rubifloris (Cockerell) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 62 (1): 84–87. ISSN 0031-0603.
- Ungricht, Stefan; Müller, Andreas; Dorn, Silvia (2008). "A taxonomic catalogue of the Palaearctic bees of the tribe Osmiini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae)". Zootaxa. 1865 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1865.1.1. ISBN 9781869772550.
- Ascher, J.S.; Pickering, J. (2019). "Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.