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Laboratoire de Zoologie
(Prof. P. Rasmont)
contact: P. Rasmont
Université de Mons
Avenue du Champ de Mars, 6
B-7000 Mons

Unité d'Entomologie fonctionnelle
et évolutive
(Prof. E. Haubruge)
contact: F. Francis
Gembloux Agro Bio Tech
Passage des Déportés, 2
B-5030 Gembloux
Other page(s) about the genus Macropis : Belgium - European bees
author(s) : Denis Michez
Among Melittidae s.str., the genus Macropis is characterized notably by the yellow markings of the male, the two submarginal cells (while the other Melittidae s.str. have three) and the well-developed pygidial plate of both sexes (Michener 1981). The morphological adaptations to collect oil (velvety hairs on the female fore legs) are also characteristic.
Macropis includes 16 species into three subgenera: Macropis s.str., Paramacropis Popov & Guiglia 1936 and Sinomacropis Michener 1981. Each species can be defined by a unique combination of a few features: shape of male yellow facial marking, pilosity of propodeal triangle, punctation of terga, shape of pygidial plate, shape of hidden male sterna and shape of male genitalia (Michener 1981, Wu & Michener 1986, Michez & Patiny 2005).
The genus Macropis is Holarctic. In East-Palaearctic, Paramacropis is distributed Northern the Yellow Sea and Sinomacropis Southern. The subgenus Macropis s.str. is also Holarctic. Three well-distinct species groups can be considered: (i) a West-Palaearctic group (three species) reaching Altai (Russia), Northern Kazakhstan; (ii) an Asian group which includes nine Chinese, East-Siberian and Japanese species; (iii) a Nearctic group with four species mainly distributed along the Eastern coast of the USA and Canada.

Macropis 

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Show only this taxa (Macropis) ciliata Patton 1880
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Mac_ciliata_pygidial.bmp
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Plaque pygidiale
Show only this taxa (Macropis) dimidiata Yasumatsu & Hirashima 1956
Show only this taxa (Macropis) europaea Warncke 1973
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Distribution Macropis europaea
Main sources : Michez D.
Last update : 24/01/2007
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Mac_europaea_genitalia.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Genitalia mâle
 
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Mac_europaea_gonostylus.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Gonostyle mâle
 
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Mac_europaea_labrum.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Labrum
 
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Mac_europaea_propodeum.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Propodeum
 
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Mac_europaea_pygidial.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Plaque pygidiale
 
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Mac_europaea_setae.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Setae patte antérieure
 
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Mac_europaea_tb3.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Tibia postérieur
 
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Macropis europaea, femelle >>> photo gallery
auteur(s) : A. PAULY
B: Gembloux, jardin botanique
sur Lysimachia vulgaris
 
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Macropis europaea, femelle >>> photo gallery
auteur(s) : A. PAULY
B: Gembloux, jardin botanique
sur Lysimachia vulgaris
 
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Macropis europaea >>> photo gallery
auteur(s) : Yvan Barbier
B, Gembloux
sur Lysimachia vulgaris
Show only this taxa (Macropis) frivaldszkyi Mocsary 1878
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Distribution Macropis frivaldszkyi
Main sources : Michez D.
Last update : 24/01/2007
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Mac_frivald_genitalia.bmp
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Genitalia mâle
 
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Mac_frivald_Gonostylus.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Gonostyle
Show only this taxa (Macropis) fulvipes (Fabricius 1805)
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Distribution Macropis fulvipes
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Tibia postérieur mâle
 
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Mac_fulvipes_genitalia.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Macropis mâle
 
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Mac_fulvipes_goostylus.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Gonostyle mâle
 
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Mac_fulvipes_pygidial.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Plaque pygidiale
 
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Mac_fulvipes_S7.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Sternum 8 mâle
 
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Mac_fulvipes_tete.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Tête
Show only this taxa (Macropis) kiangsuensis Wu 1978
Show only this taxa (Macropis) nuda (Provancher 1882)
Show only this taxa (Macropis) patellata Patton 1880
Show only this taxa (Macropis) steironematis Robertson 1891
Show only this taxa (Macropis) tibialis Yasumatsu & Hirashima 1956
Show only this taxa (Paramacropis) ussuriana Popov & Guiglia 1936
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Distribution Macropis ussuriana
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Show only this taxa (Sinomacropis) hedini Alfken 1936
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Distribution Macropis hedini
Main sources : Michez D.
Last update : 24/01/2007
Show only this taxa (Sinomacropis) immaculata Wu 1965
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Distribution Macropis immaculata
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Plaque pygidiale
 
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Mac_immaculata_S7.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
Sternum 8 mâle
 
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Mac_immaculata_tete.bmp
auteur(s) : Michez D.
tête
Show only this taxa (Sinomacropis) micheneri Wu 1992
Show only this taxa (Sinomacropis) omeiensis Wu 1965
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Distribution Macropis omeiensis
Main sources : Michez D.
Last update : 24/01/2007
Show only this taxa (Sinomacropis) orientalis Michez 2005
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Distribution Macropis orientalis
Main sources : Michez D.
Last update : 24/01/2007

Références
 Celary, W.. 2005. Melittidae of Poland (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila): Their Biodiversity and Biology. Polish Academia of Sciences, Kraków (Poland), 175 pp.
 Michener, C.D.. 1981. Classification of the bee family Melittidae with a review of species of Meganomiinae. Contribution of the American Entomological Institute, 18, 1-135.


Michez D. & Patiny S.. 2005. World revision of the oil-collecting bee genus Macropis Panzer 1809 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Melittidae) with a description of a new species from Laos. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 41 (1): 25pp.

Michez D., Nel A., Menier J.J., Rasmont P.. 2007. The oldest fossil of a melittid bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from the early Eocene of Oise (France). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 150, 701-709.
see also:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0024-4082
 Pekkarinen, A., O. Berg, I. Calabuig, L.-A. Janzon, J. Luig.. 2003. Distribution and co-existence of the Macropis species and their cleptoparasite Epeoloides coecutiens (Fabr.) in NW Europe (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Melittidae and Apidae). Entomologica Fennica, 14: 53-59.

Wu Y.-R.. 2000. Hymenoptera, Melittidae & Apidae. Academia Sinica, Beijing, 442 pp.
 Wu, Y.-R.. 1965. A study of chinese Macropis with descriptions of two new species (Apoidea, Melittidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 14, 591-599.
 Wu, Y.-R.. 1978. A study of chinese Melittidae with description of new species (Hymenoptera : Apoidea). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 21, 419-428.
 Wu, Y.-R. & Michener, C.D.. 1986. Observations on chinese Macropis. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 59, 42-48.